Stephanie Chang

Stephanie is a poet, editor, and independent curator from Vancouver, Canada. Her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Sixth Finch, Kenyon Review, The Adroit Journal, Waxwing, Berkeley Poetry Review, Penn Review, The Offing, and Where Else: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press, 2023), among others. She is the author of the chapbooks Saintless (Sunset Press, 2022) and Night Market in Technicolor (Ghost City Press, 2020). She has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of the UK, League of Canadian Poets, Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Anthony Quinn Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, among others.

Her poem "Lotus Flower Kingdom" won the 2021 Adroit Prize for Poetry, judged by Carl Phillips. It was selected for inclusion in Best of the Net 2023, awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention, and has been taught at both the high school and collegiate level. In high school, Stephanie won three Scholastic Art & Writing National Gold Medals in Poetry and Flash Fiction and was the runner-up for The Kenyon Review's 2019 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize, judged by Richie Hofmann.

Stephanie has worked as an Associate for The Kenyon Review, an Editorial Intern for Sundress Publications, and a Junior Editor at Sine Theta Magazine. She has also served as a National Juror for the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards and a poetry mentor for the Adroit Summer Mentorship Program. She recently obtained her BA in Art History and English from Kenyon College, where she received the $60,000 S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing, the Academy of American Poets College Prize, the John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize, the Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize (Best Short Fiction), and the George B. Ogden Award (Best Essay in English Prose).