Angela Chen is a journalist and editor. Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Smithsonian, Chronicle of Higher Education, National Geographic, Paris Review, Lapham's Quarterly, and more. She is the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society and the Meaning of Sex, which was named one of the best books of 2020 by NPR.