Victoria Chang - Poetry.LA Interview

VICTORIA CHANG'S poetry collections include "OBIT"(Copper Canyon Press, 2020), winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America; "Barbie Chang" (Copper Canyon Press, 2017); "The Boss" (McSweeney’s, 2013), winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award; "Salvinia Molesta" (Univ. of Georgia Press, 2008); "Circle" (Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 2005), winner of the Crab Orchard Review Award in Poetry. She edited the anthology "Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation" (2004). Her poems have appeared in the "Kenyon Review," "Poetry," "Threepenny Review," and "Best American Poetry 2005." The recipient of a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, she has an MA in Asian studies from Harvard, an MBA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson. Chang is also a children’s book author and program chair of Antioch University’s low-residency MFA Program.