Dawn Chan is a New York-based writer whose writing frequently appears in the New York Times and Artforum, where she worked as an editor from 2007 to 2018. You can also find her journalism and essays in the Atlantic.com, Bookforum, the New Yorker.com, New York Magazine, the Paris Review, and the Village Voice, among other publications.

Currently faculty at CCS Bard, Dawn has guest-lectured at RISD, MICA, and NYU and the Guggenheim Museum. She is the recipient of a Thoma Foundation art writing award in digital art and a Warhol Arts Writers Grant. Her writing appears in anthologies such as Science Fiction (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2020) and Best, Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts (Paper Monument, 2021). With four colleagues, Dawn is also working on November, an editorial project launched in 2020 featuring long-form interviews on art, media, politics, and architecture.