Angela Chen will be delivering the inaugural Asexuality (Ace) Lecture as an opening event for the 2022 Glitterary Festival. It will also serve as the official lecture for Asian, Pacific Islander, and Desi American Heritage Month in partnership with the Center for Inclusion and Cross Cultural Engagement.

About Angela Chen:

Chen is a senior editor at Wired Magazine, where she oversee the ideas section. Previously, she was a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal, Vox Media's The Verge, and MIT Technology Review.

Chen is also 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, Electric Literature, and Them.

Her reporting and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Aeon Magazine, Paris Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Lapham's Quarterly, National Geographic, Smithsonian, and more.