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The award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin and Real Americans on bell hooks, How to do Nothing, and The Book That Has The Best Title.

Victoria Chang’s multiple-award-winning literary work is diverse in form and focus, but there are some beautiful constancies, such as a deeply sensitive ear and eye for the many flavors of human emotions, especially the ones that are so difficult to express eloquently: loss, depression, the soul weariness that affects us all, especially now.

I counted 44 lines and while I counted, 44 Asian women were touched.

I counted 44 lines and while I counted, 44 Asian women were touched.

Poetic Memoir and Photo Journalling is a workshop by Cynthia Sharp, offered by the Royal City Literary Arts Society Feb. 25. It's open to everyone.

This week on The Write Question, Lauren talks with poet and memoirist Victoria Chang, author Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. The two explore the “a-synchronicity” of feelings and how silence can be used to both hide and protect.

Victoria Changs lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual familys time capsule and an artists timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.

Victoria Changs lyrical experiment memorably evokes an individual familys time capsule and an artists timeless yearning to shape carbon dust into incandescent gem.

Victoria Chang traces her family history through letter writing in her book, Dear Memory. In an NPR interview, she talks facing micro and macro aggressions and staying silent, just like her parents.

Victoria Chang traces her family history through letter writing in her book, Dear Memory. In an NPR interview, she talks facing micro and macro aggressions and staying silent, just like her parents.