Ken Chen (born 1979 San Diego, California) is an American poet and lawyer.
The son of immigrant from Taiwan, Chen grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he obtained a BA in English Literature (with a minor in Creative Writing) and Yale Law School, where he earned a JD.
Chen was an editor of Arts & Letters Daily while at Berkeley and worked at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP after law school. He is currently director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop.
His writing has been published the Art Asia Pacific, Boston Review of Books, Manoa, Field, Pleiades, and Barrow Street, Bridge, Radical Society, 5 Fingers Review, and Palimpsest.
Chen lives in Brooklyn, New York.