The New Hampshire Book Festival is thrilled to welcome Jennifer Chang as our spotlight poet!

Jennifer Chang’s most recent book An Authentic Life was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Her other honors include the William Carlos Williams Award, the Levinson Prize, and fellowships to the Elizabeth Murray Artists Residency, MacDowell, and Yaddo. She has published poems in the American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Yale Review, and elsewhere. She teaches at the University of Texas in Austin, is the poetry editor of New England Review, and serves on the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit dedicated to writers and readers of Asian American literature. An Authentic Life (2024) is her third poetry collection, following The History of Anonymity (2008) and Some Say the Lark (2017).

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