Amanda Chen is a writer and artist from California living in New York. Her work broadly explores how individual and collective memory formation is shaped by representations and engagements with digital and embodied public space. Her essays, criticism, and fiction appear in BOMB, the Brooklyn Rail, Catapult, Dirt, the Drift, Harvard Review, MUBI Notebook, the New Republic, and elsewhere in print and online. Previously, she was a fellow at Dia Art Foundation and a member of the Critics Academy at the 62nd New York Film Festival.