Robert Chen is a Taiwanese-Canadian writer and software designer. Born in 1985 in Vancouver and raised between Taipei and Calgary, he studied physics and media arts at McGill University before working on data visualization and simulation tools for climate and aerospace labs. His short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and his essays on technology and memory have run in Nautilus and Logic. A 2016 Clarion West graduate and a finalist for the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award, Chen has taught narrative design at the University of Washington and consulted for a quantum computing startup, experiences that inform his interest in time, systems, and human choice. He lives in Seattle, where he co-runs a neighborhood zine press and tends a small citrus greenhouse with his partner and an elderly shiba inu.