Tina Chang
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Tina Chang is an American poet, teacher, and editor. She was born in 1969 and raised in New York City. Her first book of poetry, Half-Lit Houses, was published by Four Way Books in May 2004, and was a finalist for an Asian American Literary Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop. Along with poets Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar, she is the co-editor of Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond, W. W. Norton, 2008.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals such as McSweeney's and Ploughshares and her work has been included in the anthologies: 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), and Identity Lessons (Penguin, 1999).
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 currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College.
She has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artist's Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Ragdale, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Blue Mountain Center among others. She has received grants and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation/Money for Women, and the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, Poets & Writers and The Academy of American Poets.
