Seamus Chen is a Taiwanese-Irish American biographer and music journalist from Queens, New York. He studied English at Queens College and narrative journalism at Columbia, then reported for alt-weeklies and arts monthlies while chronicling underground scenes in New York, Dublin, and Taipei. His work spans feature profiles, archival research, and liner notes for small labels, and he produced the interview podcast Backroom Choir. He has taught long-form nonfiction at Pratt Institute and served as a mentor with a youth music program in Sunset Park. His previous biography, Blue Apartments: The Life of Mei-Lin Wu (2017), was longlisted for a national biography prize. Chen lives in Brooklyn with his partner and an elderly orange cat named Lute.
