The Poetry Project

Chia-Lun Chang

Chia-Lun Chang looks to the side into a white light, her hair tucked behind her ear.

Chia-Lun Chang is the author of Prescribee (2022), winner of the Nightboat Poetry Prize, named among the “Best Poetry of the Last Year” by Ms. magazine, and honored as a Poets & Writers debut poet and two chapbooks; An Alien Well-Tamed and One Day We Become Whites. Recent work appears in Academy of American Poets, Granta, Bomb, Columbia Journal, 2021 Best Taiwanese Poetry, and Brooklyn Rail. She has received support from the Jerome Foundation, Vermont Studio Center and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, which awarded her the 2022 Sarah Verdone Writing Award. Born and raised in New Taipei City, Taiwan, she lives in Brooklyn.