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Angela Chen

Former Reporter

Former Reporter

Angela Chen is a science reporter at The Verge. Previously, she was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal. Her reporting has also been published in The Guardian, The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, Pacific Stanford, Smithsonian, and more. Her essays and criticism have appeared in Paris Review, Aeon Magazine, The Rumpus, and Hazlitt, among others, and she writes a monthly column at Catapult. Her first book, ACE, is forthcoming from Beacon.

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