Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang is an American poet, writer, and professor. She has experimented with different styles of writing, including writing poems shaped in obituaries, for parts of her life, including her parents and herself, in OBIT, letters in Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, and a Japanese form known as waka in The Trees Witness Everything. In all of her poems and books, Chang has several common themes: living as an Asian-American woman, depression, and dealing with loss and grief. She has also written three books for children. Chang is a professor at Georgia Tech, where she serves as the Margaret T. and Henry C. Bourne Chair and directs Poetry@Tech.