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Chang named Berlin Prize fellow
Chang named Berlin Prize fellow
By: Jack Rossi | 2021.05.12 | 09:26 am
As program director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Lan Samantha Chang is used to calling people with good news. But this time, the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts was the one who received the call.
Chang was named a 2021-22 Berlin Prize fellow, an honor awarded to scholars, writers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their field. The prize, presented by the American Academy in Berlin, Germany, provides a semester-long fellowship for recipients to pursue their creative work.
Lan Samantha Chang
Electric Literature, SmokeLong Quarterly, Hobart, The Believer, Brevity, and
Gay Magazine. Megan has also had stories featured on the
Wigleaf Top 50, an essay honored as notable in the 2019 edition of
The Best American Essays, and a story honored as distinguished in the 2020 edition of
The Best American Short Stories. She lives in Louisville, Kentucky with her two children.
Contributions
Norwood News and then in the Sunshine Pages of the depression-era
Charlotte Observer. She was educated at the Women’s College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro) and Vanderbilt University. She met Peter Taylor through writers Allen and Caroline Gordon Tate, who had mentored her in college, and the couple married in 1943. Peter Taylor taught at a number of colleges, including Kenyon College, the University of Virginia, and the University of North Carolina, where the couple became close friends with Randall Jarrell and his wife, Mackie, sharing a duplex with them for a time. Peter Taylor encouraged his wife to show her poems to Randall Jarrell, who in turn helped her submit them to various literary magazines and wrote the introduction to her first book,
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