J.L. Chen's work appears in ARC Poetry, PRISM International, Literary Review of Canada, Tupelo Quarterly, Queen's Quarterly, Grain, and elsewhere. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize, selected as a Finalist for the 2025 Robert and Adele Schiff Award by The Cincinnati Review, and longlisted for the 2025 CBC Poetry Prize. Chen holds an MFA from University of King's College and is a 2026–2028 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.