Victoria Chang
Victoria Chang's book of poems, Tree of Knowledge was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S. and Corsair/Little Brown in the U.K. in July 2026. Her most recent book of poems, With My Back to the World, received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection. A few of her other books include The Trees Witness Everything, OBIT, and Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She has written several children's books as well, such as Eureka. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
On some
days, when I am too heavy with joy, I divide
myself into cubes and triangles so that I can
once again be faceted. What to do with my
dead mother's proverbs, my dead father's
unlived years.