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Chang was born in 1969 in Oklahoma to Taiwanese immigrants, who had met in Montreal, where her mother was working as a nurse and her father was earning his doctorate in physics. The family moved to Queens, New York, when she was a year old, where she was raised except for a period during her youth,
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has described her poetry as "a vast, beautifully fashioned mosaic of indelible, variegated pieces." One of her chief goals is to "demystify the role of the poet."
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with relatives for two years. "I started questioning even at a very young age, well, what is language?" she said. "What is the role of words?"
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Since fall of 2020, Chang has served as Professor and Director of Creative Writing at her undergraduate alma mater,
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Official Press Release, BP Markowitz Names Tina Chang of Park Slope as Poet Laureate of Brooklyn
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Chang was elected Brooklyn Poet Laureate in 2010. She has received grants and awards from the
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond
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Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond
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among many other publications. It was one of five poetry collections cited by
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Brooklyn's New Poet Laureate Wants to Weave Poetry into Residents' Lives
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Brooklyn Poet Laureate Envisions Outreach into Brooklyn Communities
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Audio recording: Tina Chang at the Key West Literary Seminar, 2008
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English, General Literature and Rhetoric - Binghamton University
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From the Fishouse, audio recordings of Tina Chang's poems
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drunkenboat.com, audio recordings of Tina Chang's poems
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Her work has appeared in numerous publications such as
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She published three full-length collections of poetry:
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Poetry Society of America, Q & A: American Poetry
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Tina Chang
Oklahoma
MFA
Columbia University
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond
www.tinachang.com
poet
Poet Laureate
Brooklyn
Taiwan
Binghamton University
Columbia University
Binghamton University
Four Way Books
Four Way Books
W.W. Norton
The New York Times
O, The Oprah Magazine
NPR
The Washington Post
Poets & Writers
Los Angeles Review of Books
Publishers Weekly
Nathalie Handal
Ravi Shankar
Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond
W.W. Norton
The New York Times
McSweeney's
Ploughshares

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