Victoria Chang is a Taiwanese American poet, essayist, multimedia artist, and children’s author whose writing often includes themes about living as an Asian-American woman, depression, and dealing with loss and grief. Her most recent book of poems With My Back to the World (2024) received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection and was named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Guardian, Lithub, and Electric Literature. Prior to that publication, her poetry collection The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) was named one of the “Best Books of 2022” by the New Yorker and The Guardian. Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions, 2021) was named a favorite nonfiction book of 2021 by Electric Literature and Kirkus and OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020) received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. OBIT was also a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as longlisted for the National Book Award. Chang has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is currently the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.

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