Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World, published in 2024. It received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection and was named a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. OBIT, her fifth book of poems, received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. OBIT was a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award and was longlisted for the National Book Award. Other books include The Trees Witness Everything and her nonfiction book, Dear Memory. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Victoria is the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne, Jr. Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry @ Tech.