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.

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 is currently a fifth grade assistant teacher in Chicago.

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