Margaret Zhang

Margaret Zhang is a queer Asian American writer and undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania. A Best New Poets 2019 nominee and Tin House Poetry Workshop alum, they have been recognized by the Poetry Society of the UK. Read their work in Waxwing, The Louisville Review, Salt Hill Journal, The Minnesota Review, and other journals. You can also find them at margaretzhang.com.

Poetry

Killing the Dragon

By Margaret Zhang

“I prefer the forgetting / of what doesn’t beg to be / remembered: nights that know my body parts / for the way they could be anyone else’s / in the swarm.”