In all of her poems and books, Chang has several common themes: living as an Asian-American woman, depression, and dealing with loss and grief.

[2] Victoria Chang was born in a Taiwanese-American family in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in the suburb of West Bloomfield.

in poetry from the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, where she held a Holden Scholarship.

Chang's first book, Circle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005), won the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.

In 2021, she published Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, Milkweed Editions.

In 2024, Chang's collection of poems, With My Back to the World, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.