Diana Chang was a Chinese American novelist, poet, educator, and artist. Her first novel, The Frontiers of Love (1956) was the first novel written by an American born Chinese American in the United States.
Chang received a bachelor’s in creative writing at Barnard College in 1949. While an undergraduate, Poetry Magazine published three of her poems, including “At the Window.” After graduation, she began writing her first novel, The Frontiers of Love, and worked as a junior editor at three book publishing houses. For more than six years she worked as an editor for The American Pen.
Chang returned to Barnard College in 1979 as an adjunct associate professor of English and of the arts, teaching creative writing for 10 years in the English department, and for five years, "Imagery and Form in the Arts," in the Program of the Arts. Her poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, and been collected in chapbooks, including The Horizon Is Definitely Speaking, What Matisse Is After, and Earth Water Light.
Chang was a recipient of a John Hay Whitney Opportunity Fellowship, Fulbright Scholarship, Mademoiselle Magazine Woman-of-the-Year Award, and a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts. She lived in Water Mill, NY with her husband David Herrmann, and later in Pennsylvania.
