Chen Nianxi

Chen Nianxi is a Chinese poet from Shaanxi, whose poetic genre is "migrant worker literature".

Biography

Chen was born in Danfeng County, Shaanxi. Following high school graduation in 1987, Chen got married and worked as a farmer, and had a son in 1999. Alongside publishing poetry in local publications, he worked as a miner for approximately 15 years across China, particularly in the Qinling mountain range.
In 2011, along with the growth of microblogging in China, he was able to reach a broader audience. This eventually attracted the attention of Qin Xiaoyu, a film critic and producer, who profiled Chen in his 2015 documentary The Verse of Us.