River Huiying Dandelion Chan

River Huiying Dandelion Chan (he, him, keoi / 佢) is a poet, a teacher, and a healer. He is a finalist for a 2023 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship. He is the author of remembering (y)our light (forthcoming, self-published, 2023). Chan’s work is published in Best New Poets 2021 (University of Virginia Press), Where Else (Verve Poetry Press, 2023), the Bellevue Literary Review, The Offing, The Margins, the Asian American Journal of Psychology, and elsewhere. His poetry has won honors including the 2022 AWP Kurt Brown Prize. His work placed for The Plentitudes Journal Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Bellevue Literary Review Poetry Prize and the Bellingham Review 49th Parallel Award in Poetry.

Chan co-curated Homeward Bound: Global Intimacies in Converging Chinatowns, an exhibit derived from his 2016–2017 work as a Knafel Fellow, in which he used photographs, oral histories, and multimedia archives to highlight stories of migration, displacement, and everyday resilience in Chinatowns around the world.

Chan has received support from Kundiman, Lambda Literary, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Tin House, and other organizations. He has spoken, performed, and facilitated workshops at Columbia University, the Museum of the City of New York, the University of Havana, and others. He was a contributing editor for the History Channel and is an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University-Newark.