Tina Chang

Brooklyn, New York, Poet Laureate Tina Chang is the author of two poetry collections, Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books, 2011), and Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books, 2004). She received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in American Poet, Indiana Review, The Missouri Review, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, among others. Her poems have been anthologized in Identity Lessons (Penguin Putnum, 1999); Poetry Nation (Vehicule Press, 1998); Asian American Literature (McGraw-Hill, 2001); Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois Press, 2004); Poetry 30: Poets in Their Thirties; and From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems that Sing, Rhyme Resound, Syncopate, Alliterate, and Just Plain Sound Great (Persea Books, 2009). 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 and has held writing fellowships from Fundación Valparaíso, The MacDowell Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, and Villa Montalvo. She edited, with Ravi Shankar and Nathalie Handal, Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2009). She currently teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and is an international faculty member at the City University at Hong Kong.