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Emily Zhang

Emily Zhang is a student at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, Maryland. Her writing appears in Word Riot and is forthcoming in Columbia Review.

Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize

Sept/Oct 2015

Story for the Salt

By Emily Zhang

Runner-up 2015 Patricia Grodd Poetry Prize for Young Writers Stooped over the sink like the arm of a salt-marsh tree, suds meditating in her palms, Ma swears this is true— […]