TINA CHANG is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections Hybrida (W.W. Norton), Of Gods & Strangers, and Half-Lit Houses. She is also co-editor of the Norton anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond. Her poems have been published The New York Times, Poetry, Ploughshares among many others. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, among others. She is a professor and Director of Creative Writing at Binghamton University.