Chelsea Oei Kern

Director of Programs at Community of Literary Magazines and Presses

Chelsea Oei Kern is an ACLS Leading Edge Fellow working with CLMP on DEIA Outreach, Programs & Strategic Partnerships. She is involved with a variety of CLMP programs with a focus on diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility. Chelsea holds a PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she taught and wrote about contemporary U.S. fiction. Her writing on literature and technology has appeared in Arizona Quarterly and Postmodern Culture. Previously, she worked with the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Illuminations Arts Publishing, and blue moon, the annual literary magazine of Whitman College.

Timeline

  • Director of Programs

    Current role

  • ACLS Leading Edge Fellow, DEIA Outreach, Programs & Strategic Partnerships Coordinator