Ms. Victoria Chang
California, United States
Member Since: 02/14/2012
Victoria Chang’s latest poetry book is OBIT, which was named a New York Times Notable Book, a TIME Best Book of the Year, and received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN Voelcker Award. It was also longlisted for a National Book Award and named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Her new hybrid nonfiction book is Dear Memory. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Residency Fellowship, and a Katherine Min MacDowell Colony Fellowship. She lives in Los Angeles and serves as Core Faculty within Antioch’s MFA Program.
Website: www.victoriachangpoet.com
Twitter Username: @VChangPoet
Publications
- Obit , Copper Canyon Press (April 2020)
- Love Love , Sterling Books (April 2020)
- Barbie Chang , Copper Canyon Press (November 2017)
- The Boss , McSweeney's (2014)
- Salvinia Molesta , University of Georgia Press (2008)
- Circle , Southern Illinois University Press (2005)
- Is Mommy? , Beach Lane Books
- Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief , Milkweed Editions (October 13, 2021)
Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship(2017)
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize(2020)
- PEN Voelcker Award in Poetry(2020)
- Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize in Poetry(2020)
- MacDowell Fellowship(2019)
Employment
- Core Faculty at Antioch University (October 2017 - )
Degrees
- Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from University of Michigan (June 1992)
- Master of Arts in Asian Studies from Harvard University (December 1993)
- Master of Science in Business from Stanford University (June 1998)
- Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Poetry from Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers (June 2005)
Genres of Interest
Creative nonfiction, Children's literature , Poetry