Amy Hildreth Chen received her PhD in 2013 from Emory University in English. She accepted a Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Alabama, where she worked in Special Collections from 2013-2015. Chen then served as Special Collections Instruction Librarian from 2015-2017 and English and Communication Librarian from 2017-2020 at the University of Iowa. In 2020, she became an independent scholar, leaving the academy to become the Manager of Medical Publications at JMI Laboratories (now Element Materials Technology) in North Liberty, Iowa. Her book, Placing Papers: The American Literary Archives Market, was published in June 2020 by the University of Massachusetts Press. Chen is married with one child.

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