Nancy Chen Long

Nancy Chen Long is a poet whose second collection, Wider than the Sky, was selected for the Diode Editions Book Award and published by Diode Editions in 2020. Her first full-length book, Light into Bodies, won the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Pleiades, and Poetry Daily, among others. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship and the 2019 Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Award. She has a background in electrical engineering, software consulting, and project management, and holds an MFA from Spalding University. She works in the Research Technologies division at Indiana University.