Yu Chang was born in mainland China in 1938, grew up in Taiwan, and went to graduate schools in England and in the U.S. He has been a member of the electrical engineering faculty at Union College since 1974. He lives in Schenectady, N.Y., just south of the Mohawk river, within easy reach of the Adirondack mountains. He started writing haiku in 1996. He was Shiki Kukai secretary from August 1997 to February 1999. He is featured in Ty Hadman's Poet Profile of the Month, for June 2001, on the AHA Poetry Page. First place in the 2nd and 3rd Shiki Internet Haiku contest, 1997, 1998. A New Resonance, Red Moon Press, 1999. Previous credits include: Acorn, Frogpond, Lynx, Modern Haiku, South by Southeast, still, The Heron's Nest, Tundra, Woodnotes, Poetry In The Light, chaba, Reflections - A Haiku Diary and others. haiku (in editors' picks I-2): "new york apartment" - haijinx volume I, issue 2 haiku: "first day of winter" - Dim Sum, Vol.1/I (Spring 2001)
biography
contests & awards
First place award in the 1999 Haiku Society of America Harold G. Henderson haiku contest.
Frogpond 'best of issue' Museum of Haiku Literature Award, 1998.
Second place in the Haiku Society of America Einbond Renku Contest (with Paul MacNeil and John Stevenson), 2000.chapbooks, books, collections, & anthologies
Haiku North America Anthology, Chicago, 1999.
HSA members' anthologies, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
stone frog: American Haibun & Haiga, Volume 2, Red Moon Press, 2001
Several Red Moon Anthologies
Dim Sum, Upstate Route 9 Haiku Group, with Hilary Tann and John Stevenson (guest poet, Vol. 1/I: Tom Clausen)newspaper, magazine, & journal appearances
haiku (in haiga): "new york apartment" - Dim Sum, Vol.1/I (Spring 2001)
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