Jennifer Chang

Jennifer Chang received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1998, an MFA from the University of Virginia in 2002, and a PhD in English from the University of Virginia in 2017.

Chang is the author of three poetry collections: An Authentic Life (Copper Canyon Press, 2024); Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017); and The History of Anonymity (University of Georgia Press, 2008).

The winner of the 2023 Levinson Prize from the Poetry Foundation, Chang cochairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization that supports Asian American literature. She is also a professor at George Washington University and lives in Washington, D.C.