Lucy Xiang-fu Wainger

grew up at Ground Zero.

Her debut chapbook In Life There Are Many Things (Black Lawrence Press, 2023) won the Black River Chapbook Competition, and her microchap How to Write an Essay (forthcoming from Palette Poetry) won the Micro Chapbook Prize.

She holds an MFA from UMass Amherst and a BA from Emory University, where she received the Louis B. Sudler Prize in the Arts and an Academy of American Poets Prize.

She currently lives in Chicago, where she is pursuing an MAT in elementary education and working as a fifth grade assistant teacher.

You can reach her at lucywainger [at] gmail [dot] com.