Victoria Chang is a celebrated poet, whose books have earned such honors as a PEN Center Literary Award and a California Book Award. Her poems have appeared in "Kenyon Review", "American Poetry Review", "POETRY", "Believer", "New England Review", "VQR", "The Nation", "New Republic", "The Washington Post", "Best American Poetry", and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor of the literary journal, "Copper Nickel". She lives in Southern California with her family and her wiener dog, Mustard. "Is Mommy ? "is her first book for children.