Victoria Chang’s book of poems, Tree of Knowledge was published by FSG in July 2026. Her other books include With My Back to the World, The Trees Witness Everything, OBIT, and Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief. She has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She is the Bourne Chair in Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.

The Emily Dickinson Lectureship in American Poetry is sponsored by George Kelly '59 and Barbara Martino Kelly '59.