Jennifer Chang is an American poet and scholar.

Life and career

Jennifer Chang was born in

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. She earned a BA from the University of Chicago in 1998, and an MFA from University of Virginia in 2002, where she returned to pursue a PhD and received her degree in 2017. Her poems have been published in ''American Poetry Review'', ''Best American Poetry 2012'', ''The Nation'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Poetry'', and ''A Public Space''. Chang's debut collection of poetry, ''The History of Anonymity'', was published in 2008 by the

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. This collection of lyrical poems was an inaugural selection for the ''VQR''s (''Virginia Quarterly Review'') Poetry Series and a finalist for the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Her second book, ''Some Say The Lark,'' was published by

Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, MA in 19 ...

in 2017. It was longlisted for the 2018 PEN Open Book Award and won the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award. She lives with her family in

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, where she is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at

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. Chang is co-chair of the advisory board for

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, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature.

Awards and honors

* Henry Hoyns Fellowship,

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*2018 Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award * Winner of the ''

Virginia Quarterly Review The ''Virginia Quarterly Review'' is a quarterly literary magazine that was established in 1925 by James Southall Wilson, at the request of University of Virginia president E. A. Alderman. This ''"National Journal of Literature and Discussion" ...

's'' Poetry Series, for ''The History of Anonymity'' * Finalist for the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, for ''The History of Anonymity'' * 2005 Van Lier Fellowship in Poetry at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop * 2005 Louis Untermeyer Scholarship at

Bread Loaf Writers' Conference The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference is an author's conference held every summer at the Bread Loaf Inn, near Bread Loaf Mountain, east of Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1926, it has been called by ''The New Yorker'' "the oldest and most ...

* 2005 Selection for

Best New Poets The ''Best New Poets'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing fifty poems from poets without a previously published collection. The first edition of the series appeared in 2005, and was published, as all later editions hav ...

MacDowell Colony MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell ...

Fellowship * Djerassi Resident Artists Program

References

External links

Profile: Alice James Books > Authors > Jennifer Chang

Profile: George Washington University > English Department Faculty > Jennifer Chang

Audio: Jennifer Chang reads "Again A Solstice" on NPR Morning Edition

Poems: Kenyon Review > Spring 2011 > ''Some Say the Lark Makes Sweet Division; Terra Incognita'' by Jennifer Chang

Poems: Blackbird > Vol. 5, No. 1 Spring 2016 > Estuary, Field Guide to the Night Sky, Slept and Introductions by Jennifer Chang
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