Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang Biography

Victoria Chang is an American poet and children's writer. Her fourth book of poems, Barbie Chang, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2018. 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.

She also occasionally writes picture books for children and her picture book is called "Is Mommy?" published by Beach Lane Books (Simon & Schuster) in the fall of 2015, illustrated by Marla Frazee.

Life

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 Guidant.

She lives in Southern California and spent her business career working in marketing and communications. She now writes full time. She also teaches poetry at Chapman University.

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

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 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, 2018
The Boss, McSweeney's Poetry Series

Children's Picture Books

Anthologies Edited

Anthology Publications

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