Stephanie Y. Chang / 張雅雯 (she/they) is a writer, editor, and contemporary art historian based in New York City. A 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow, her writing has appeared in The Rumpus, Sixth Finch, Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, Strange Horizons, Waxwing, Hobart Pulp, Peach Mag, and The Offing, among others. She has been recognized by the Poetry Society, Academy of American Poets, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, League of Canadian Poets, Anthony Quinn Foundation, Hollins University, the University of New Mexico, Delta Delta Delta Foundation, and more.

Her poem, “Lotus Flower Kingdom,” won the 2021 Adroit Prize for Poetry, judged by Carl Phillips. It was selected for inclusion in the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, awarded a Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology, and has been taught at San Jose State University and public high schools in the U.S. Additionally, Chang is the author of Night Market in Technicolor (Ghost City Press 2020), SAINTLESS (Sunset Press 2022), and a contributor to WHERE ELSE: An International Hong Kong Poetry Anthology (Verve Poetry Press 2023). Her next chapbook, The Fragrant Blue Garden of Saints, is forthcoming from Palette Poetry in March 2026.

She presented her undergraduate thesis—”Post-Sexual Natures: Queer Ecological Erotics and Intimacies in Ren Hang’s ‘Athens Love’ Photographs, 2015”—at the Johns Hopkins University Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium and the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention, with chapters in The Journal of Art Criticism and Asterisk* Journal of Art & Art History. Additionally, she published an article on Jennie Jieun Lee’s ‘Queen Bee’ in Verdigris: The Smith College Journal of Art & Art History and presented on Wang Qingsong’s monumental staged photographs at the SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium. Her research interests include modern & contemporary East Asian and Asian American vernacular photography, queer ecology, the philosophy of new media, and digital visual culture.

Her work spans art museums (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters, The Gund) and strategic communications for internationally-leading arts and culture organizations (Art Basel, BMW Group Culture, Korea International Art Fair, UBS Art Collection, Storm King Art Center, Gwangju Biennale, Art Collaboration Tokyo, Miffy, Ballet Hispánico). Recently, she curated an exhibition of Dr. Yan Zhou’s 1980s photographs capturing student activists from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) and has written wall labels for works by Cai Guo-Qiang, Milton Rogovin, and Joe Overstreet for exhibitions at The Gund, where she served as a Curatorial Associate.

A first-generation college graduate, she holds a B.A. in Art History and English with Creative Writing (Distinction) at Kenyon College, where she received the $60,000 S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing, Academy of American Poetry Prize, John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize, George B. Ogden Prize, and Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize. She was a Visual Art Intern and Editorial Associate at The Kenyon Review as well as Editor-in-Chief of Sunset Press, a publisher of chapbooks.

Presently, she is the Operations Intern at Eric Firestone Gallery in Manhattan.