“INHERITANCE is a collection of poems about my relationship to immigration, language, and womanhood, primarily explored through my relationship with my mom.” - Juliana Chang
To celebrate Juliana's newest chapbook, we chat about her transnational identity, how her career priorities have evolved, tools for exploring and clarifying career interests, the difference between vain self-promotion versus expanding your ability to give to others, the poems that stood out the most to us from INHERITANCE, and how her love for words has been a throughline connecting her many dreams and passions.
More about Juliana:
Juliana Chang is a Taiwanese American poet, filmmaker, and incoming law student. She received a BA in Linguistics and a MA in Sociology from Stanford University in 2019. Juliana is the 2019 recipient of the Urmy/Hardy Poetry Prize, the 2017 recipient of the Wiley Birkhofer Poetry Prize, and a 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Medalist in Poetry. Her film and screenplay, Many Names, placed among the top 4 films in the national 2018 AT&T Create-a-thon Short Film competition. Her debut poetry chapbook, INHERITANCE, was the winner of the 2020 Vella Prize and is forthcoming from Paper Nautilus Press in 2021.
She works as a Product Content Strategist in San Francisco.
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