Listen Chen lives in Vancouver on occupied Musqueam, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish Territories. As a member of Red Braid Alliance (formerly Alliance Against Displacement), they organized with poor communities facing down police and bylaw officers, politicians, right-wing vigilantes, landlords, supportive housing providers and business owners, primarily in Maple Ridge. Their political writing can be found in or is forthcoming from the Volcano, Against the Current, Lausan, and A Separate Star (ARP Books). Their poetry has been published in Tripwire, the Capilano Review and We Want It All (Nightboat Books).