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Name
  
Victoria Chang


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
University of Michigan, Harvard University

Nominations
  
Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry

Books
  
Salvinia molesta, The Boss, Circle

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Victoria Chang is an American poet and children's writer. Her fourth book of poems, Barbie Chang, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2017. Her third book of poetry, "The Boss" was published by McSweeney's as part of the McSweeney's Poetry Series in July 2013—it won a PEN Center USA literary award and a California Book Award. Her most recent poetry collection is Salvinia Molesta (University of Georgia Press, 2008). Her first book, Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.

Contents

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She also occasionally 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. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017.

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Life

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Victoria Chang was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1970 and raised in the suburb of West Bloomfield. Her parents were immigrants from Taiwan. She graduated from the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Stanford Business School. She also has an MFA in poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers where she held a Holden Scholarship. She worked for Morgan Stanley in investment banking, Booz Allen & Hamilton in management consulting, and others.

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She lives in Southern California and spent her business career working in marketing and communications. She now focuses on writing and teaching. She teaches poetry at Chapman University and Orange County School of the Arts. In the summers, she occasionally teaches at Idyllwild Writers Week.

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Her work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast,Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Ploughshares, and The Nation.

Honors and awards

  • Guggenheim Fellowship 2017
  • IS MOMMY? named a New York Times Notable Book in 2015
  • 2014, The Boss winner of a 2014 PEN Center USA Literary Award
  • 2014, The Boss winner of a 2013 Commonwealth California Book Award (Silver Medal)
  • 2004 Crab Orchard Review Open Competition Award
  • Salivinia Molesta Finalist for the 2008 Commonwealth California Book Award
  • Circle, Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book award
  • Circle, finalist for the PEN Center West Book Award
  • 2007 Ploughshares Cohen Award
  • 2005 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Fellowship
  • 2005 Sewanee Writers' Conference Fellowship
  • 2003 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Scholarship
  • Published works

    Full-Length Poetry Collections

  • Barbie Chang, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, 2017
  • The Boss, McSweeney's Poetry Series
  • Salvinia molesta: poems. University of Georgia Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8203-3176-8. 
  • Circle. Southern Illinois University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8093-2618-1. 
  • Children's Picture Books

  • Is Mommy?. Beach Lane Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1481402927. 
  • Anthologies Edited

  • Victoria M. Chang, ed. (2004). Title Asian American poetry: the next generation. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07174-4. 
  • Anthology Publications

  • Paul Muldoon, David Lehman, eds. (2005). "Seven Changs". Title The Best American Poetry 2005. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-5738-1. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
  • References

    Victoria Chang Wikipedia