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{{short description|American poet, teacher, and editor|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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'''Tina Chang''' is an American [[poet]], professor, editor, organizer, and public speaker. In 2010, she was named [[Poet Laureate]] of [[Brooklyn]].

==Early life and education==
Chang was born in 1969 in Oklahoma to [[Taiwanese people|Taiwanese]] immigrants, who had met in Montreal, where her mother was working as a nurse and her father was earning his doctorate in physics. The family moved to Queens, New York, when she was a year old, where she was raised except for a period during her youth, when Chang and her brother were sent to live in [[Taiwan]] with relatives for two years. "I started questioning even at a very young age, well, what is language?" she said. "What is the role of words?" <ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/nyregion/21poet.html | work=The New York Times | title=A Poet Who Doesn't Do Lofty | first=Elissa | last=Gootman | date=March 19, 2010}}</ref>

Chang earned her B.A. in English literature from [[Binghamton University]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.binghamton.edu/english/creative-writing/binghamton-center-for-writers/index.html|title=The Binghamton Center for Writers - English, General Literature and Rhetoric {{!}} Binghamton University|website=English, General Literature and Rhetoric - Binghamton University|language=en|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref> She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from [[Columbia University]].

==Career==
Since fall of 2020, Chang has served as Professor and Director of Creative Writing at her undergraduate alma mater, [[Binghamton University]]. She oversees the Binghamton Center for Writers which includes the Distinguished Writers series, Common Ground, a reading series devoted to undergraduate and graduate creative writers, the Binghamton Writers Project, the Harpur Palate literary journal, Coffee & Conversation, the Word of Mouth annual collaboration between student poets and composers, and annual literary awards.

She published three full-length collections of poetry: ''Half-Lit Houses'' ([[Four Way Books]], 2004), ''Of Gods & Strangers'' ([[Four Way Books]], 2011), and ''Hybrida'' ([[W.W. Norton]], 2019) which was named a Most Anticipated Book of 2019 by ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[O, The Oprah Magazine]]'', [[NPR]], and ''[[The Washington Post]]'', and featured in ''[[Poets & Writers]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Review of Books]]'' among many other publications. It was one of five poetry collections cited by ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' in its Best Books of 2019 issue. Along with poets [[Nathalie Handal]] and [[Ravi Shankar (poet)|Ravi Shankar]], she is the co-editor of [[Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond]] ([[W.W. Norton]], 2008).

Her work has appeared in numerous publications such as ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''[[McSweeney's]]'', and ''[[Ploughshares]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=1935|title = Read by Author | Ploughshares}}</ref> The ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' has described her poetry as "a vast, beautifully fashioned mosaic of indelible, variegated pieces."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Harlan |first1=Megan |title='Language for a New Century': Poetry from Asia |date=20 April 2008 |url=https://www.sfgate.com/books/article/Language-for-a-New-Century-Poetry-from-Asia-3218046.php |publisher=[[SFGate]] |accessdate=3 January 2019}}</ref> One of her chief goals is to "demystify the role of the poet."

She has held residencies at [[MacDowell Colony]], Djerassi Artist's Residency, [[Vermont Studio Center]], Fundacion Valparaiso, Ragdale, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.saltonstall.org/tina-chang-publishes-new-poetry-collection|title=Tina Chang ('06) publishes new poetry collection|website=Saltonstall|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-10|archive-date=2019-07-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710161040/https://www.saltonstall.org/tina-chang-publishes-new-poetry-collection|url-status=dead}}</ref> Blue Mountain Center, and the [[Virginia Center for the Creative Arts]].

==Awards==
Chang was elected Brooklyn Poet Laureate in 2010.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/pages/poetry/BrooklynPoetLaureate.htm |title=Brooklyn Borough President |accessdate=2010-12-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214041155/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/pages/Poetry/BrooklynPoetLaureate.htm |archivedate=2010-12-14 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/tina-chang|title=About Tina Chang {{!}} Academy of American Poets|last=Poets|first=Academy of American|website=poets.org|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref> She has received grants and awards from the [[New York Foundation for the Arts]], the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation/Money for Women, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Poets & Writers and The [[Academy of American Poets]]. She has also won a [[Dana Award]] for poetry. She was a finalist for an [[Asian American Literary Award]] from the [[Asian American Writers' Workshop]], for ''Half-Lit Houses''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://poets.org/poet/tina-chang|title=About Tina Chang {{!}} Academy of American Poets|last=Poets|first=Academy of American|website=poets.org|access-date=2019-07-21}}</ref>

==Books==
*{{cite book| title=Half-Lit Houses| publisher=Four Way Books| date=2004| isbn=978-1884800528 }}
*{{cite book| title=Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond| publisher=W. W. Norton | date=2008| isbn=978-0393332384 }}
*{{cite book| title=Of Gods & Strangers| publisher=Four Way Books| date=2011| isbn=978-1935536178 }}
*{{cite book| title=Hybrida| publisher=W. W. Norton & Company | date=2019| isbn=978-1324002482 }}

===Anthologies===
*''Poetry 30: Poets in their Thirties'', (MAMMOTH Books, 2005)
*''Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation'', (University of Illinois Press, 2004)
*''Asian American Literature'' (McGraw-Hill, 2001)
*''Identity Lessons'' (Penguin, 1999).

==References==
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==External links==
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*[http://www.tinachang.com Homepage for Tina Chang]
*[http://www.kwls.org/lit/podcasts/2010/04/tina_chang_2008.cfm Audio recording: Tina Chang at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203094508/http://www.kwls.org/lit/podcasts/2010/04/tina_chang_2008.cfm |date=2010-12-03 }}
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/nyregion/21poet.html A Poet Who Doesn't Do Lofty, The New York Times]
*[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/454376-Why_I_Write_Tina_Chang.php?rssid=20807&q=tina+chang Why I Write, Publishers Weekly]
*[https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/crossroads/qa_american_poetry/page_11/ Poetry Society of America, Q & A: American Poetry]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100713025753/http://www.brooklyn-usa.org/press/2010/feb3b_MA.htm Official Press Release, BP Markowitz Names Tina Chang of Park Slope as Poet Laureate of Brooklyn]
*[http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/brooklyn_new_poet_laureate_wants_IX6FntA0uddHBAPK7xV8qK Brooklyn's New Poet Laureate Wants to Weave Poetry into Residents' Lives]
*[http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=33360 Brooklyn Poet Laureate Envisions Outreach into Brooklyn Communities]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927002929/http://fishousepoems.org/archives/tina_chang/index.shtml From the Fishouse, audio recordings of Tina Chang's poems]
*[http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19802 Interview with Li-Young Lee]
*[http://www.drunkenboat.com/db9/index.html drunkenboat.com, audio recordings of Tina Chang's poems]
*[https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/nyregion/new-jersey/19poetrynj.html?scp=1&sq=tina%20chang&st=cse, New York Times, Princeton Poetry Festival]
*[http://www.guernicamag.com/poetry/436/three_poems_3/ "Strange Theater"; "Wild Invention"; "Imagine, Refugee", ''Guernica'', November 2007]
*[http://poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19775 "Duality", ''Poets.org'']

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