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*[http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/454376-Why_I_Write_Tina_Chang.php?rssid=20807&q=tina+chang Why I Write, Publishers Weekly] |
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Revision as of 16:10, 13 April 2010
Tina Chang (born 1969 New York City) is an American poet, teacher, and editor. She is currently Poet Laureate of Brooklyn.
Life
She was raised in New York City and later attended Binghamton University[1]. Chang received her master of fine art'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.
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 new collection of poetry, Of Gods & Strangers, will be published in 2011.
Her work has appeared in numerous journals such as McSweeney's and Ploughshares. [2]
She has held residencies at MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Artist's Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Fundacion Valparaiso, Ragdale, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others.
Awards
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. She has also won a Dana Award for poetry.
Finalist for an Asian American Literary Award from the Asian American Writers Workshop, for Half-Lit Houses.
Books
- Half-Lit Houses. Four Way Books. May 2004. ISBN 9781884800528.
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- Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond. W. W. Norton. May 2008. ISBN 0393332381.
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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)
- Identity Lessons (Penguin, 1999).
References
External links
- Homepage for Tina Chang
- Audio recording: Tina Chang at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008
- A Poet Who Doesn't Do Lofty, The New York Times
- Why I Write, Publishers Weekly
- Official Press Release, BP Markowitz Names Tina Chang of Park Slope as Poet Laureate of Brooklyn
- Brooklyn's New Poet Laureate Wants to Weave Poetry into Residents' Lives
- Brooklyn Poet Laureate Envisions Outreach into Brooklyn Communities
- From the Fishouse, audio recordings of Tina Chang's poems
- Interview with Li-Young Lee
- drunkenboat.com, audio recordings of Tina Chang's poems
- New York Times, Princeton Poetry Festival
- "Strange Theater"; "Wild Invention"; "Imagine, Refugee", Guernica, November 2007
- "Dualisty", Poets.org