With My Back to the World is a 2024 poetry collection by American poet Victoria Chang, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

[4] The poems themselves span themes of language, loneliness, depression, Asian American womanhood, and current events such as the 2021 Atlanta spa shootings.

"[14] World Literature Today called the book "psychologically astute and generous in its focused attention on the work of another artist.

"[15] The Harvard Review wrote that "The book brims with questions and conjecture, and Chang invites readers to query depression, grief, and the purpose of art.

"[16] The Asian Review of Books called it "Introspective, complex and experimental" and said the poems "reveal vulnerability and emotional honesty found in the creative process of making art and of poetry.