Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry and Prose Series with a reading by Victoria Chang on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, at 4:30 p.m. in Sanborn Library. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions or access needs.

Victoria Chang’s most recent book of poems is With My Back to the World, published in 2024 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the U.S. and Corsair/Little Brown in the U.K. It received the Forward Prize in Poetry for Best Collection. A few of her other books include The Trees Witness Everything, OBIT, and Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She has written several children’s books as well. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Chowdhury International Prize in Literature, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.