Williams, Chen is a Chinese American writer and former risk analyst who grew up in Monterey Park, California. After earning a degree in applied mathematics from UC San Diego, Chen spent a decade building predictive models for insurance and logistics firms in Manhattan and Chicago. That behind-the-scenes work with data and corporate decision-making informs the tense, tech-literate worlds of their fiction. Chen has published short thrillers in regional magazines, taught evening seminars on narrative structure at a community arts center in Logan Square, and was a 2023 resident at a Midwestern writers retreat. They split time between Chicago and Taichung, speak conversational Mandarin, and are an avid night cyclist along the lakefront.
