Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang (born 1970) is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic of Taiwanese and Chinese descent, raised in Detroit, Michigan. She holds degrees from the University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford (MBA), and Warren Wilson MFA Program, and transitioned from business roles to poetry, serving as Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech. Notable works include her poetry collections OBIT (2020, winner of Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, PEN/Voelcker Award), Barbie Chang (2017), The Boss (2013), With My Back to the World (2024, Forward Prize), and nonfiction Dear Memory (2021), alongside children's books like Is Mommy? (2015). Her awards include Guggenheim (2017) and NEA (2025) fellowships, with themes exploring grief, Asian-American identity, and depression.