Lan Samantha Chang Biography, Books, and Similar Authors

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Lan Samantha Chang
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Lan Samantha Chang

Lan Samantha Chang Biography

Lan Samantha Chang is the author of a collection of short fiction, Hunger, and two novels, Inheritance and All Is Forgotten, Nothing Is Lost.

Chang has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Academy in Berlin. Chang is the director of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She lives with her husband and daughter in Iowa City, Iowa.

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