Victoria Chang is the author of several books, including With My Back to the World; The Trees Witness Everything; her nonfiction book, Dear Memory; and Obit, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry, and the PEN/Voelcker Award. It was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Chowdhury Prize in Literature.