Jennifer Chang is an American poet and scholar.
Life and career
Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. 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 University of Georgia Press. This collection of lyrical poems was an inaugural selection for the VQRs (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 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 Washington, D.C., where she is an assistant professor of English and creative writing at George Washington University.
Chang is co-chair of the advisory board for Kundiman, an organization dedicated to the creation and cultivation of Asian American literature.
Awards and honors
Henry Hoyns Fellowship, University of Virginia
2018 Winner of the William Carlos Williams Award
Winner of the Virginia Quarterly Review'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 2005 Selection for Best New Poets MacDowell Colony 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
American women poets
21st-century American poets
Living people
People from New Jersey
Year of birth missing (living people) University of Chicago alumni University of Virginia alumni 21st-century American women writers