Background
Chang was born in 1969 in Oklahoma, to Chinese immigrants, who had met in Montreal, where her mother was working as a nurse and her father was earning his doctorate in physics.
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Education
She later attended Binghamton University.
Career
In 2010, she was named Poet Laureate of Brooklyn. “I started questioning even at a very young age, well, what is language?” she said. “What is the role of words?”
She received her master of fine art"s degree in poetry from Columbia University.
She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and The City University of Hong Kong.
Along with poets Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar, she is the co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary: Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, West. West. Norton, 2008. Her latest collection of poetry, Of Gods & Strangers, was published October 2011.
Her work has appeared in numerous publications such as The New York Times, McSweeney"s, and Ploughshares. She has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artist"s Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Fundacion Valparaiso, Ragdale, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.
Achievements
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Chang was elected Brooklyn Poet Laureate in 2010. She has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation/Money for Women, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Poets & Writers and The Academy of American Poets. She has also won a Dana Award for poetry. Finalist for an Asian American Literary Award from the Asian American Writers" Workshop, for Half-Literature Houses.
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Quotations: “I started questioning even at a very young age, well, what is language?”.
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Nationality
United States
Education
Awards
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Asian American Literary award; Brooklyn Poet Laureate Chang was elected Brooklyn Poet Laureate in 2010. She has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation/Money for Women, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Poets & Writers and The Academy of American Poets. She has also won a Dana Award for poetry. Finalist for an Asian American Literary Award from the Asian American Writers' Workshop, for Half-Lit Houses.
