Victoria Chang’s first book of poetry, Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), won the Crab Orchard Review Series in Poetry Open Competition Award and was a finalist for the 2005 PEN Center USA Literary Award. The University of Georgia Press is scheduled to publish her second book in the fall of 2008. Chang’s poems have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Paris Review, The Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Slate, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry 2005. She lives in Southern California and works as a business researcher and writer.  

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