Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Harvard University, and Stanford University, as well as an MFA from Warren Wilson College. She currently serves as the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and as the director of Poetry@Tech.

Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World (2024), which won the Forward Prize for best poetry collection. Her other books of poetry include The Trees Witness Everything (2022), which was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and The Guardian, and OBIT (2020), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. She also is the author of the nonfiction book Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (2021) and the middle-grade novel-in-verse Love, Love (2020).

Her other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Chowdhury Prize in Literature, a PEN Center USA Literary Award, and a California Book Award. Her poems have been translated into many languages, including Italian, Chinese, Spanish, Romanian, and Dutch.