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Lan Samantha Chang, American writer, educator. Recipient California Book award silver medal, Bay Area Book award, James-Michener-Copernicus award; National Endowment for the Arts grantee,

Background

Samantha Chang was born in Appleton, Wisconsin, the daughter of Chinese parents who survived the World World War II Japanese occupation of China and later emigrated to the United States.

Education

Bachelor, Yale University, Master of Public Administration, Harvard University, Master of Fine Arts, University Iowa,

Career

She is Professor of English at the University of Iowa and Director of the Iowa Writers&#; Workshop. Chang has received fellowships from Stanford University (the Stegner Fellowship) and Princeton University. She served as the Briggs-Copeland Lecturer of Creative Writing at Harvard University.

Chang received an Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Iowa, an Master of Public Administration from Harvard University, and a Bachelor in East Asian Studies from Yale University.

At Yale, she served as managing editor of the Yale D

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Lan Samantha Chang was born in Appleton, Wisconsin and attended college at Yale where she earned her bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies. She worked in publishing in New York City briefly before getting her MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and was a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford. She is currently the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts at the University of Iowa and the Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is the first woman, and the first Asian American, to hold that position.

Chang's first book is a novella and short stories, titled Hunger (). The stories are set in the US and China, and they explore home, family, and losLan Samantha Chang was born in Appleton, Wisconsin and attended college at Yale where she earned her bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies. She worked in publishing in New York City briefly before getting her MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is a graduate of the Io

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Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a collection of short fiction, Hunger, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost.

Chang has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. Chang is the director of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives with her husband and daughter in Iowa City, Iowa.

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Lan Samantha Chang is the author of The Family Chao, winner of an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction. A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of her first collection, Hunger, was recently reissued by W.W. Norton & Company. She is also the author of the novels All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost and Inheritance, which won the PEN Open Book Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and The Best American Short Stories. She's received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. She has also received an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa, where she teaches at and directs the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

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