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Victoria Chang is the author of 8 books of poetry, including Obit and Barbie Chang, a work of creative nonfiction, and two children’s books. She is an expert at imagining herself as multiplicitous selves who move through times, places, and bodies. Her newest collection of poems is called With My Back to the World. It’s inspired by the art and writing of Agnes Martin, a painter who was an influential part of the abstract art movement beginning in the 1950s. Chang is a contributing editor at Copper Nickel, Tupelo Quarterly, and On the Seawall, and the Program Chair of Antioch University’s low-residency MFA Program.
Steven Winn is a San Francisco writer and critic whose work has appeared in Musical America, the New York Times, Opera, and the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was the paper’s Arts and Culture Critic from 2000-2008. Winn’s memoir, Come Back, Como; Winning the Heart of a Reluctant Dog, has been translated into nine languages. His past City Arts & Lectures interviews include Patti LuPone, Frances McDormand, Tony Kushner, Louise Erdrich, Steve Martin, and David Brooks.