Chris Fong Chew

Chris Fong Chew 招偉明 is a writer and educational administrator pursuing his MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College after he completed his undergrad at Berklee College of Music. At Emerson he was part of the inaugural cohort of the Transformational Leadership Fellowship and now serves on the Presidential Advisory Committee as the Deputy Chair for Graduate Students. He also leads the organization Collections of Transience, a literary collective that runs a yearlong residency program for writers of color, which he founded in 2023. Chris has been published in Dear Asian Youth’s literature page, Berklee’s Fusion Magazine, OCA's IMAGE magazine, and Trident Poetry Collective's chapbooks. In 2025 Chris was selected as part of the Boston Mayor’s Poetry Program. Chris is passionate about the intersection of creative disciplines and the meshing of different fields of knowledge.