TINA CHANG is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses (2004) and Of Gods & Strangers (2011) and Hybrida (2019) and the forthcoming collection, LION (W.W. Norton, 2026). She is co-editor of the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poetry, American Poet, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, and Ploughshares. She is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate fellowship, as well as awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, among others. In 2010, she was named the first female Poet Laureate of Brooklyn and she served in this role for over a decade. Graduate of Columbia University, she is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University. She will serve as visiting professor at Harvard University in 2026.
