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I've never thought about the con of living in New York as a writer. Because I always think, Oh, what fun to be around so many writers. Because I've never been around so many writers.

Victoria Chang

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Victoria Chang
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 1
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Whether people like your work or not, but it's also based on a lot of other things - geography, who you happen to connect with and where they sit in that ladder - and all of that felt really isolating and disheartening to me when I figured it out.
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Sometimes people ask me to do stuff in New York, like Can you read at this thing? And I say, Nooo, I can't just get on a plane with these two screaming children - I can't just get rid of them on such short notice and take vacation and fly over to New York.
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In general, I find that poets spend a lot of time thinking about themselves, and not a lot of time thinking about other poets, or other poetry. Unless they think about how it affects them, or how it could impact them.
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Most of my writing friends are working in academia. Most of my business school friends are always talking about bringing companies public, and money, and making money, and lots and lots of money. It's just a different environment.
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As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
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I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.
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I've always done things that were good for me, whether they were viewed as being as prestigious or whatever.
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