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| image = Victoria Chang by Pat Cray (cropped).jpg<br />
| name = Victoria Chang<br />
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| birth_place = [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], U.S.<br />
| occupation = {{flatlist|<br />
*Poet<br />
*writer<br />
*editor<br />
*critic<br />
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| education = [[University of Michigan]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Harvard University]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])<br>[[Stanford University]] ([[Master of Business Administration|MBA]])<br>[[Warren Wilson College]] ([[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]])<br />
| website = {{URL|https://victoriachangpoet.com/}}<br />
| caption = Chang in 2022<br />
}}<br />
'''Victoria Chang''' is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic. She has experimented with different styles of writing, including writing poems shaped in obituaries, for parts of her life, including her parents and herself, in ''OBIT'', letters in ''Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief'', and a Japanese form known as waka<ref name=waka><br />
[https://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_600ce_waka.htm What Is a Waka?] at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.<br />
</ref> in ''The Trees Witness Everything''. In all of her poems and books, Chang has several common themes: living as an Asian-American woman, depression, and dealing with loss and grief. She has also written three books for children.<ref name=Attribution>Some of content in the introductory paragraph was derived from the [[Citizendium:Victoria Chang|Victoria Chang article in Citizendium]].</ref><br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
Victoria Chang was born in a [[Taiwanese Americans|Taiwanese American]] family in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in the suburb of West Bloomfield.<ref>{{cite web |title=A McSweeney's Books Q&A with Victoria Chang, Author of The Boss |url=https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-mcsweeneys-books-q-a-with-victoria-chang-author-of-the-boss |website=McSweeney's Internet Tendency |access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Victoria Chang |url=https://poetryinvoice.ca/read/poets/victoria-chang |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=poetryinvoice.ca |language=en}}</ref> Her parents were immigrants from [[Taiwan]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Issues {{!}} Ploughshares |url=http://www.pshares.org/read/article-detail.cfm?intArticleID=8732 |website=www.pshares.org |access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref> She graduated from the [[University of Michigan]] with a B.A. in Asian Studies, [[Harvard University]] with a M.A. in Asian Studies, and [[Stanford Business School]] with a M.B.A.<ref>{{cite web |title=Victoria Chang |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/victoria-chang |website=Poetry Foundation |access-date=9 January 2020 |language=en |date=9 January 2020}}</ref> She also earned a M.F.A. in poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, where she held a Holden Scholarship.<br />
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==Career==<br />
Chang's first book, ''Circle'' ([[Southern Illinois University Press]], 2005), won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. Her second poetry collection is ''Salvinia Molesta'' ([[University of Georgia Press]], 2008). Her third book of poetry, ''The Boss'' was published by McSweeney's in 2013—it won a PEN Center USA literary award and a California Book Award. Another collection, ''Barbie Chang'', was published by [[Copper Canyon Press]] in 2017.<ref>{{cite web |title=Barbie Chang by Victoria Chang |url=https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/barbie-chang-by-victoria-chang/ |website=Copper Canyon Press |access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref><br />
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Her fifth book of poems, ''OBIT'', was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2020. It won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the PEN Voelcker Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize and was a finalist for [[National Book Critics Circle Award]], the [[Griffin Poetry Prize]], and longlisted for the [[National Book Award for Poetry|National Book Award]]. It was also named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book, a ''New York Times'' Best 100 Books of the Year, a ''TIME'' Magazine, NPR, ''Boston Globe'', and ''Publishers Weekly'' Best Book of the Year.<br />
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In 2021, she published ''Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief,'' Milkweed Editions. The book was a ''TIME, Lithub, and NPR'' most anticipated book of 2021. It was named one of Electric Literature’s Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021.<br />
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Her sixth book of poems, ''The Trees Witness Everything'', was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2022. It was named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker and Electric Literature.<br />
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In 2024, Chang's collection of poems, ''[[With My Back to the World]]'', was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It received the Forward Prize in Poetry and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, and the California Book Award.<br />
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She also writes [[picture books for children]] and middle grade novels, and her picture book, ''Is Mommy?'' published by [[Beach Lane Books]] (Simon & Schuster) in the fall of 2015, illustrated by Marla Frazee, was named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book. Her middle grade verse novel, ''LOVE, LOVE'' was published by Sterling Publishing in 2020, and ''Eureka'' in 2026 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux Children’s Books.<br />
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Chang serves as the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and as the Director of Poetry at Tech. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2025, the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature in 2023, a Lannan Residency Fellowship in 2020, a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2017, a Poetry Society of America Alice Fay di Castagnola Award in 2018, a Pushcart Prize, and a MacDowell Fellowship. Her work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''[[The Paris Review]]'', ''[[The Kenyon Review]]'', ''[[Gulf Coast (journal)|Gulf Coast]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/242-summer/fall-2012/the-boss-wears-wrist-guards-i-risk-carpal-tunnel-without-them-cant/ |title=[The boss wears wrist guards I risk carpal tunnel without them can't] |author=Victoria Chang |work=Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts |date=Fall 2012|access-date=2012-06-23}}</ref> ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review]]'',<ref>{{cite web |title=Published in VQR |url=http://www.vqronline.org/author/5569/victoria-chang/ |publisher=www.vqronline.org |access-date=11 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225082655/http://www.vqronline.org/author/5569/victoria-chang/ |archive-date=25 February 2012}}</ref> ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', ''[[Ploughshares]]'', and ''[[The Nation]]'', and ''[[Tin House]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=In the Magazine June 28, 2004 |url=http://www.thenation.com/doc/20040628/chang |publisher=www.thenation.com |access-date=11 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100909032315/http://www.thenation.com/issue/june-28-2004 |archive-date=9 September 2010}}</ref><br />
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==Honors and awards==<br />
* 2003 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship<br />
* 2005 [[Sewanee Writers' Conference]] Fellowship<br />
* 2005 [[Bread Loaf Writers' Conference]] Fellowship<br />
* 2007 ''Ploughshares'' Cohen Award<ref>{{cite web |title=Issues {{!}} Ploughshares |url=https://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=8732 |website=www.pshares.org}}</ref><br />
* ''Circle'', finalist for the PEN Center West Book Award<br />
* ''Circle'', Winner of the [[Association for Asian American Studies]] Book award<br />
* ''Salvinia Molesta'' Finalist for the 2008 Commonwealth California Book Award<br />
* 2014 ''The Boss'' winner of a 2013 [[Commonwealth Club of California|Commonwealth California Book Award]] (Silver Medal)<br />
* 2014 ''The Boss'' winner of a 2014 [[PEN Center USA]] Literary Award<br />
* ''IS MOMMY?'' named a ''New York Times'' Notable Book in 2015<br />
* 2020 Lannan Foundation Residency Fellowship<br />
* 2020 Frank Sanchez Book Award<ref>{{Cite web |title=Obit (Paperback) |url=https://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9781556595745 |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=Green Apple Books |language=en}}</ref><br />
* ''OBIT'' was named a ''New York Times 100 Best Books of the Year,'' a ''TIME Magazine Best 100 Books of the Year,'' NPR's Best Books of the Year, ''Publishers Weekly'' Best Books of the Year, ''Boston Globe'' Best Books of the Year<br />
* 2020 ''OBIT'' won the [[Los Angeles Times Book Prize|''Los Angeles Times'' Poetry Book Prize]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Pineda|first=Dorany|date=2021-04-17|title=Winners of the 2020 L.A. Times Book Prizes announced|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2021-04-16/winners-of-the-2020-l-a-times-book-prizes-announced|access-date=2021-04-17|website=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
* ''OBIT'' was longlisted for a [[National Book Award for Poetry]]<br />
* ''OBIT'' won the [[PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry]]<br />
* ''OBIT'' was a finalist for a [[National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry]]<br />
* 2021 ''OBIT'' won the [[Anisfield-Wolf Book Award]] for poetry<ref>{{cite web | title=Introducing Our Class of 2021 |website=Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards |date=April 5, 2021 |url=https://www.anisfield-wolf.org/2021/04/introducing-our-class-of-2021/ |access-date=April 5, 2021}}</ref><br />
* 2021 ''OBIT'' was a finalist for the [[Griffin Poetry Prize|Griffin International Poetry Prize]]<br />
* 2023 Chowdhury International Prize in Literature<br />
* ''[[With My Back to the World]]'' received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Poetry Collection in 2024<ref>{{Cite web |title=Georgia Tech’s Victoria Chang Wins Prestigious Forward Prize {{!}} News Center |url=https://news.gatech.edu/news/2024/10/14/georgia-techs-victoria-chang-wins-prestigious-forward-prize |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=news.gatech.edu |language=en}}</ref><br />
* ''[[With My Back to the World]]'' was a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize<br />
* ''[[With My Back to the World]]'' was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2025<br />
* National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2025<br />
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==Published works==<br />
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'''Poetry Collections'''<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=Circle |publisher=Southern Illinois University Press |year=2005 |isbn=9780809326181}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=Salvinia Molesta |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=2008 |isbn=9780820331768}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=The Boss |publisher=McSweeney's Poetry Series |year=2014}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=[[Barbie Chang]] |publisher=Copper Canyon Press |year=2017}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=OBIT |publisher=Copper Canyon Press |year=2020}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=The Trees Witness Everything |publisher=Copper Canyon Press |year=2022}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=With My Back to the World |title-link=With My Back to the World |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2024}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=Tree of Knowledge |title-link= |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |year=2026}}<br />
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'''Prose Books'''<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief |publisher=Milkweed Editions |year=2021}}<br />
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'''Children's Books'''<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=Is Mommy? |publisher=Beach Lane Books |year=2015 |isbn=9781481402927}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=Love Love |publisher=Sterling Books |year=2020}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=EUREKA |publisher=FSG Children's |year=2026|isbn=978-0374393533}}<br />
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'''Anthologies Edited'''<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |title=Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation |editor=Victoria M. Chang |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2004 |isbn=9780252071744}}<br />
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'''Anthology Publications'''<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |chapter=Seven Changs |title=The Best American Poetry 2005 |editor=Paul Muldoon |editor2=David Lehman |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2005 |isbn=9780743257381}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |chapter=Six poems from ''OBIT'' |title=The Best American Poetry 2019 |editor=Major Jackson |editor2=David Lehman |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2019}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |chapter=Obit |title=The Best American Poetry 2020 |editor=Paisley Rekdal |editor2=David Lehman |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2020}}<br />
* {{cite book |first=Victoria M. |last=Chang |author-mask=2 |chapter=Obit |title=The Best American Poetry 2021 |editor=Tracy K. Smith |editor2=David Lehman |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2021}}<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.victoriachangpoet.com/ Author's Website]<br />
*[https://www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/how-the-work-of-agnes-martin-inspired-victoria-chang-book-of-poems Interview: "How the Work of Agnes Martin Inspired Victoria Chang's New Book of Poems", Interview Magazine (online), April 10, 2024.]<br />
* [https://www.kickingwind.com/61306.html Interview: ''every other day'' > 13 June 2006 > Victoria Chang Interview]<br />
* [http://fishousepoems.org/archives/victoria_chang/index.shtml Audio: Victoria Chang Reading for ''From the Fishouse'']<br />
* [http://muttsbane.com/victoriachang.aspx "Drawing New Circles: Dialogue with Victoria Chang", ''Emprise Review'']<br />
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