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Victoria Chang

Victoria Chang
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Victoria Chang

Born: 3 December 1970

Victoria Chang (she/her) is the author of The Trees Witness Everything (Copper Canyon Press, 2022); the nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief (Milkweed Editions, 2021); and Obit (Copper Canyon Press, 2020), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and the Director of Poetry@Tech. (Source)

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Poems by Victoria Chang

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Grief by Victoria Chang

August 15, 2025
“The grief remains but is changed by / what it is covered with. A picture of / oblivion is not the same as oblivion.” — Victoria Chang
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Starlight, 1962 by Victoria Chang

June 25, 2024
“Suppose the stars are just our grief reflected back to us, proof that grief sometimes forgets its source, that it can find dead things no matter how distant.” — Victoria Chang
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Passage by Victoria Chang

December 25, 2023
"Every leaf that falls / never stops falling." — Victoria Chang