Biography
Victoria Chang is a poet born in 1970 in Detroit, the daughter of an engineer and a teacher, both immigrants from Taiwan. Obit, her fifth poetry collection, while often laced with dark humour, is an outpouring of grief at her parents’ deaths. In obituary prose poems, Chang reflects the shape of newspaper death notices, or tombstones. Obit, among many honours, was a finalist for the Griffin Prize, and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for poetry. Chang was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and holds an MA in Asian studies from Harvard University, an MBA from Stanford University, and an MFA from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She is a children’s book author and editor, teaches in Antioch University’s MFA program, and lives in Southern California with her family.