Victoria Chang
Professor, Director of the Poetry@Tech Program, and Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Chair
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Overview
Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S. and Corsair/Little Brown in the U.K. It received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection. OBIT (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was also a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as longlisted for the National Book Award. Other recent books include The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022), and her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed Editions, 2021). She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
- M.F.A. in Creative Writing Warren Wilson College
- M.B.A. Stanford University
- M.A. East Asian Studies, Harvard University
- B.A. East Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Courses
- LMC-3204: Poetry and Poetics
- LMC-3234: Poetry
Publications
Recent Publications
Books
- With My Back to the World
Date: 2024
- The Trees Witness Everything
Date: 2022
- Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
Date: 2021
- Love, Love
Date: 2020
- OBIT
Date: 2020
All Publications
Books
- With My Back to the World
Date: 2024
- The Trees Witness Everything
Date: 2022
- Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
Date: 2021
- Love, Love
Date: 2020
- OBIT
Date: 2020
- Barbie Chang
Date: 2017
- Is Mommy?
Date: 2015
- The Boss
Date: 2014
- Salvinia Molesta
Date: 2008
- Circle
Date: 2005
- Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation
Date: 2004