Steph Chang (she/they) is a writer, editor, and strategist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in The Rumpus, Kenyon Review, Adroit Journal, Strange Horizons, Waxwing, Hobart Pulp, Peach Mag, and The Offing, among others. She has been recognized by the Academy of American Poets, Poetry Society of the UK, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, League of Canadian Poets, Asian American Writers Workshop, and more. Her poem, “Lotus Flower Kingdom,” was selected for inclusion in the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology and awarded a Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology; it also won the 2021 Adroit Prize for Poetry, judged by Carl Phillips.

She presented at the 2024 SUNY New Paltz Undergraduate Art History Symposium and published a paper on Jennie Jieun Lee’s ‘Queen Bee’ in Verdigris: The Smith College Journal of Art & Art History in 2023. Her work experience spans art museums (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met Cloisters, The Gund) and strategic communications for 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).

Currently, she studies Art History and English 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, and Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize in short fiction. Steph is the Editor-in-Chief of Sunset Press, a publisher of chapbooks.

She 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).

Steph was born by the Pacific Ocean—where she hopes to return to someday.

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