Victoria Chang's first book of poetry, Circle, won the Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry and will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in April, 2005. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in journals including The Nation, Poetry, Threepenny Review, The Kenyon Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, and The North American Review. She edited the anthology Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation (University of Illinois, 2004). She holds degrees from the University of Michigan and Stanford and is currently attending the MFA program at Warren Wilson College on a Holden Minority Scholarship. She has received a scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a Taylor Fellowship to The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, as well as a Hopwood Award from the University of Michigan. She resides in Los Angeles and San Diego.  

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