The Official Bio!
Mike Chen is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Brotherhood, Here and Now and Then, A Quantum Love Story, and other novels, as well as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine comics. He has covered geek culture for sites such as Nerdist and The Mary Sue, and in a different life, he's covered the NHL. A member of SFWA, Mike lives in the Bay Area with his wife, daughter, and many rescue animals. Follow him on Twitter, Bluesky, and Instagram: @mikechenwriter
More About Me
I've always been a writer.
When I was young, I wrote (and drew) my own fan fiction before I even knew what fan fiction was. Most of this involved crossovers between my favorite franchises, because mashing up Robotech with Space Quest made total sense in my brain.
I knew I'd hit on something when I wrote a parody of The Grapes of Wrath in my high school English class. Entitled The Oranges of Evil, it featured many moments of "skitters" and a twist ending that turned the Dust Bowl into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles origin story. I had one classmate laughing so hard, she couldn't talk for several minutes.
In college, I took creative writing alongside my "practical" engineering degree, and I also began freelancing about the NHL for various sites. This led to a long career of writing technical/marketing copy and developing WordPress websites while covering NHL and international hockey for some of the biggest names in sports: Fox Sports, SB Nation, and Versus (now NBC Sports Network).
But I'd always been a storyteller at heart, and although I loved writing about my favorite sport while earning a living from tech writing, my head was constantly filled with stories. Today, I've found my niche, blending science fiction elements and themes with a more grounded and intimate story.
In my stories, there are no epic wars or fate-of-the-universe events; instead, they're tales of family and friendship and humor that just happen to have some time travel or an apocalypse.
Representation
Literary Agent: Eric Smith, PS Literary
Film/TV: Kim Yau, Echo Lake Entertainment
Publicity: Justine Sha, HarperCollins
Geek Journalism
Tor.com
StarTrek.com
Nerdist
The Mary Sue
The Portalist
Sports Journalism
SB Nation
Fox Sports
Versus (now NBC Sports)
Contributions to Yahoo Sports, NHL.com, NYTimes.com
