Carrie Chang was born in 1970 in Syracuse New York. She attended Stanford University UC-Berkeley and New York University obtaining her B.A. and M.J. and M.F.A. in English and journalism and creative writing respectively. She worked as an Asian American journalist in the arts/political field for almost a decade creating her own magazine Monolid and lives as a writer/poet in the Bay Area. Her favorite pastimes include swimming and painting.