Stephanie Chang Advances in Poetry and Art Curation
Steph (AQF ‘19) continues to build a distinguished path as both a writer and an aspiring museum curator in New York’s vibrant creative scene.
Since receiving her AQF Literary Arts Scholarship in 2019, Steph has turned much of her attention to art history and contemporary art research. While she still writes and publishes poetry, this summer, Stephanie completed her second internship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, serving as a Collections Management Intern in the Department of Photographs. She previously interned in the Met’s Department of Education in 2023.
Steph is a graduate of Kenyon College, where she earned distinction for her Creative Writing senior capstone—a poetry chapbook, part of which will be published next summer by Palette Poetry. At Kenyon, she received numerous honors, including the $60,000 S. Georgia Nugent Award in Creative Writing, the Academy of American Poets Prize, the John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize, and the Muriel C. Bradbrook Prize for Best Short Fiction.
Stephanie’s published literary work includes the poem “Lotus Flower Kingdom,” winner of the 2021 Adroit Prize for Poetry, selected for the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, and awarded a Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her writing has appeared in journals such as The Rumpus, Adroit Journal, Strange Horizons, Kenyon Review, Waxwing, wildness, and Peach Mag.
Beyond poetry, Steph has expanded into fiction, being accepted to the Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Voices Fellowship in Young Adult Fiction under Aiden Thomas, where she is developing a YA sapphic fantasy manuscript.
We celebrate Stephanie’s remarkable achievements and look forward to her continued contributions to both literature and the arts.