Victoria Chang has written several books of poetry, including With My Back to the World, The Trees Witness Everything, and a nonfiction book, Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. Her poetry collection OBIT was named a New York Times Notable Book; received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the PEN/Voelcker Award; and was long-listed for the National Book Award, named a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. With My Back to the World received the Forward Prize for Best Collection of Poetry and was shortlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award, California Book Award, and Kingsley Tufts Award. Chang has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and the director of Poetry@Tech.