BIO

Tina Chang received an MFA in poetry from Columbia University. She is the author of  the   poetry collection Half-Lit Houses, finalist for the Asian American Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Sonora Review, among others.

Her work has also been anthologized in Identity Lessons, Poetry Nation, Asian American Literature, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems and in Poetry 30: Poets in Their Thirties. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van Lier Foundation among others.

She is co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008) along with Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar. She currently teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and Hunter College.