Tina Chang, current poet laureate of Brooklyn, is the author of Half-Lit Houses (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (W.W. Norton). She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and Poets & Writers, among many others. Her new poetry collection, Of Gods & Strangers, is forthcoming in 2011 for Four Way Books.