The editors of Dryland congratulate author Juliana Chang for the release of her debut poetry collection, Inheritance; winner of the 2020 Vella Contest and published by Paper Nautilus Press in March, 2021. Her poem, “Mom’s Makeup” was featured in Dryland, Issue 10.
The 2020 Vella Contest was judged by Lisa Mangini, Editor in Chief of Paper Nautilus—a small press founded in 2011 as an annual literary magazine, but since 2016 it has focused solely on publishing chapbooks. Chang’s debut poetry collection is the first release out of three more co-winners of the contest, which include Jason B. Crawford, Sarah Nichols, and Marc Sheehan.
Juliana Chang is a Taiwanese American writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of the 2019 Urmy/Hardy Poetry Prize, the 2017 Wiley Birkhofer Poetry Prize, and a 2015 Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Medalist in Poetry. Most recently, her poems “one day when I become a museum” and “Elegy for Jane” earned her a nomination for Best New Poets 2021.
Follow her on Instagram @julianawritespoems and on Twitter @julianawrites.
Click here to order a copy of Inheritance, available through Paper Nautilus Press.
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