Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang’s forthcoming book of poems, With My Back to the World, will be published in 2024. Her most recent book of poetry, The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon, 2022), was named one of the Best Books of 2022 by the New Yorker and the Guardian. Her nonfiction book, Dear Memory (Milkweed, 2021), was named a favorite nonfiction book for 2021 by Electric Literature and Kirkus. OBIT (Copper Canyon, 2020) was named a New York Times Notable Book, a Time Must-Read Book, and received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry as well as the PEN/Voelcker Award. The Boss (McSweeney’s, 2013) won the PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Her other books of poetry are Salvinia Molesta (Georgia, 2008) and Circle (Southern Illinois, 2005). Chang has also received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature.