Chris Chen is an Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Chen has published poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews in boundary 2, The South Atlantic Quarterly, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, The New Inquiry, Crayon, 1913: A Journal of Forms, Tripwire, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His book-length comparative study of contemporary Black and Asian North American experimental poetry, Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. With Sarika Chandra, he is finishing a book on capitalism and contemporary theories of racial group formation.