Karissa Chen is the author of the chapbook, Of Birds and Lovers. Her fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Midnight Breakfast, PANK, and The Good Men Project. She has been the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from the Napa Valley Writers Conference, VONA/Voices, and Kundiman. She is the fiction & poetry editor at Hyphen magazine and a cofounding editor of Some Call It Ballin’.