Tina Chang
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Tina Chang is an Asian American poet. She was born in 1969 and raised in New York. She currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College. Her first book of poetry, Half-Lit Houses, was published by Four Way Books in May 2004 and was a finalist for the Asian American Literary Award.
Chang received her master’s degree in poetry from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where she studied with Lucie Brock-Broido, Lucille Clifton, Alfred Corn, Mark Doty and Richard Howard. She is currently co-editing an anthology of contemporary Arab and Asian poetry, along with poets Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar, due to be published by W.W. Norton in Spring 2008.
Books
Half-Lit Houses, Four Way Books, 2004
Contributor
Poetry 30: Poets in their Thirties, MAMMOTH Books, 2005
Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, University of Illinois Press, 2004
Asian American Literature, McGraw-Hill, 2001
Identity Lessons anthology, Penguin, 1999
Poetry Nation anthology, Vehicule Press, 1999
Journals
Lumina, spring 2007
McSweeney’s, spring 2007
The American Poet, The Academy of American Poets, 2004
SHADE anthology, winter 2003
Asian Pacific American Journal, fall 2003
Indiana Review, spring 2002
Sonora Review, spring 2002
nycbigcitylit.com, spring 2001
Quarterly West, Fall 1998
Missouri Review, spring 1998
The Crab Orchard Review, spring 1998
International Quarterly, spring 1998
Tamaqua, spring 1998
Callaloo, summer 1997
The Cream City Review, spring 1997
CALYX, summer 1997
Asian American Renaissance Journal, fall 1996
Asian Pacific American Journal, fall 1996
Awards and Distinctions:
Honorary Fellowship, Djerassi Artist’s Residency, 2006 Artist’s Residency, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, 2006 Full Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 2005 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA), Poetry Fellowship, 2003-2004 Full Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, 2003 Writer’s Grant, Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation/Money for Women, 2002 Writer’s Grant, Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, 2001-2002 Nadya Aisenberg Fellow, MacDowell Colony, 2001-2002 NY Community Trust Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship, 2000-2001 Artist’s Residency, Fundación Valparaíso, Spain, 2000 Literary Grant, Poets & Writers,1999 Ruth Comfort Mitchell Fellow, Villa Montalvo Residency, 1999 Academy of American Poets, University Prize, 1997 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, 1997 Dana Poetry Award, 1997 Charles Johnson Poetry Award,1997
Poetry Online
Listen to Tina Chang’s poems on From the Fishhouse http://fishousepoems.org/archives/tina_chang/index.shtml
Tina Chang’s official website www.tinachang.com