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Anelise Chen




Anelise Chen is an American writer of fiction and non-fiction. She teaches creative writing at Columbia University, where she is also the Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her first novel, So Many Olympic Exertions, was published by Kaya Press in 2017. It was a VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Finalist. She is currently working on a second book, Clam Down (One World), based on her brief stint as the Paris Review Daily's "mollusk correspondent." She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 Awardee. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, New York Times, The Believer, McSweeney's, BOMB, The New Republic, NPR, Village Voice, Conjunctions, and more. ...more

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So Many Olympic Exertions
4.08 avg rating — 774 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions
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Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
3.92 avg rating — 771 ratings — published 2025 — 4 editions
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“I would rather be unhappy than be the kind of person who keeps an exercise journal.”
― Anelise Chen, So Many Olympic Exertions
tags: exercise, humor
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“Athena thinks she is exceptional at suffering, but actually the only thing she is really good at is procrastinating.”
― Anelise Chen, So Many Olympic Exertions
tags: procrastination, suffering
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“She finally understood the paradoxical necessity of hiding so one would no longer have to hide.”
― Anelise Chen, Clam Down: A Metamorphosis
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