Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang is an American poet, writer, editor, and professor. Her books include the poetry collections Circle (2005), Salvinia Molesta (2008), The Boss (2013), Barbie Chang (2017), Obit (2020), The Trees Witness Everything (2022), and With My Back to the World (2024) and Tree of Knowledge. She is also the author of the nonfiction book Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (2021) as well as children's books.

Obit received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award, and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry. With My Back to the World received the 2024 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Chang is the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and director of Poetry@Tech.