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