Lan Samantha Chang
Lan Samantha Chang 張嵐 | |
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Chang at AWP 2025 | |
| Born | 1965 (age 59–60) Appleton, Wisconsin, U.S. |
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| Genre | Novel, short story |
| Notable works | Hunger (1998) Inheritance All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost The Family Chao (2022) |
| Notable awards | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction (2023) Berlin Prize (2021) PEN Open Book Award (2005) Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award (1998) |
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Lan Samantha Chang (Chinese: 張嵐; pinyin: Zhāng Lán; born 1965) is an American novelist and short story writer. She is the author of The Family Chao (2022) and short story collection Hunger. For her fiction, which explores Chinese American and Taiwanese American experiences, she is a recipient of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Berlin Prize, the PEN Open Book Award and the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.
She is the Elizabeth M. Stanley Professor in the Arts at the University of Iowa and the Director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop since 2005. She is the first woman, and the first Asian American, to hold the position.