Justin Chen

Justin Chen lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and works in nonprofit communications. His writing has appeared in the New York Times Modern Love column, STAT, Essay Daily, and Entropy. He was the 2020 writer in residence at Porter Square Books.

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Recent Writing

Not Your Ordinary Experience of Desire
A poignant postmortem of a four-year relationship, told in alternating voices, becomes a catalog of unmet needs and wants … and a path to a hopeful future.
True Story, Issue #35

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Justin Chen

Recent Writing

Not Your Ordinary Experience of Desire