Tina Chang

Poet

Bronxville, NY

New York US

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Website:

www.tinachang.com

Author's Bio

TINA CHANG is the Brooklyn Poet Laureate. Author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (2011), she is also co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008). Her poems have been published in American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares, among others. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van Lier Foundation among others. She teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and she is also a member of the international writing faculty at the City University of Hong Kong, the first low-residency MFA program to be established in Asia.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Poetry 30: Poets in their Thirties (Mammoth Books, 2005)

Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004)

Asian American Literature (Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 2001)

Identity Lessons (Penguin, 1999)

Poetry Nation (Vehicule Press, 1999)

Books:

Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books, 2011)

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W. W. Norton & Company, 2008)

Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books, 2004)

Journals:

American Poet

McSweeney's

The New York Times

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Asian American

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

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Last update: Jul 02, 2013