An Authentic Life

Central themes include the Asian American experience, feminism, mental health, motherhood, and contemporary twist on classical mythology
Chang is fascinated by fairy tales and mythology, and even wrote a verbatim line fromLittle Red Riding Hood without knowing it in one of her poems until she reread the Brothers Grimm and realized she had stolen the line!
Chang has a PhD from University of Virginia and wrote her dissertation on race and the modernist pastoral.
Chang taught at George Washington University, Bennington, and Michener Center for Writers
Chang won the 2018 William Carlos Williams Award
Potential audiences: Lovers of Asian American/Chinese poetry; stories of immigration, mental illness, and mythology; feminist poetry; and poetry on motherhood, parent-child relationships, and generational trauma.

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