Victoria Chang’s fourth book of poems, Barbie Chang, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2017. The Boss (McSweeney’s) won a PEN Center USA Literary Award and a California Book Award. Other books are Salvinia Molesta, published by the University of Georgia Press as part of the VQR Poetry Series and Circle, which won the Crab Orchard Review Open Competition and was published by the Southern Illinois University Press.
Her poems have been published in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Kenyon Review, The Nation, New Republic, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Harvard Review, Agni, The Washington Post, Best American Poetry, and many other places. In 2017, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her picture book, Is Mommy? illustrated by Marla Frazee (Beach Lane/Simon & Schuster) was named a New York Times Notable Book. She lives in Southern California with her family and her two wiener dogs Mustard and Ketchup.
In 2017, Victoria was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship. She was recently elected to serve on the National Book Critics Circle Board.
