Poetry Reading: Michael Chang and Jennifer Tseng

Friday, September 20, 5pm

A reading by Michael Chang and Jennifer Tseng, followed by a reception/signing.

Open to the public. All attendees are required to RSVP in advance; please click here

About the Poets:

Michael Chang (they/them) is the author of TOY SOLDIERS (Action, Spectacle, 2024) & THINGS A BRIGHT BOY CAN DO (Coach House Books, 2025). They edit poetry at Fence.

Poet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese immigrant engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction collection, The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press 2017), was a Firecracker Award finalist and winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; her novel, Mayumi and the Sea of Happiness (Europa Editions 2015), was shortlisted for the PEN American Center’s Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the New England Book Award. MAYUMI is available in English, Italian, and Danish.

She’s also the author of four award-winning books of poetry, The Man With My Face(AAWW 2005); the bilingual Red Flower, White Flower (Marick Press 2013) featuring Chinese translations by Mengying Han and Aaron Crippen; and the chapbook, Not so dear Jenny (Bateau Press 2017), poems made with her father’s English letters. The full-length version of her chapbook, Thanks for Letting Us Know You Are Alive, was published by UMass Press in April 2024. Tseng earned an MA in Asian American Studies at UCLA, an MFA in creative writing at University of Houston, and she was twice a fiction fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She’s currently an assistant professor of literature and creative writing at UC Santa Cruz.