The Poetry Project

Jenny Zhang

Jenny Zhang is the author of the story collection Sour Heart, the poetry collection Dear Jenny, We Are All Find, the chapbook Hags, and the forthcoming poetry collection My Baby First Birthday. She is the recipient of the Pen/BinghamAward for Debut Fiction and the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Harpers, N+1, Rookie, The New Inquiry, PEN America, BOMB, Buzzfeed, Poetry, and elsewhere. She's taught writing at Columbia University, The New School, University of Iowa, and various NYC public high schools. She received her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and her BA in Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity from Stanford University.