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Kaitlyn Airy

Kaitlyn Airy is a Korean American poet, essayist, and adoptee, currently residing in Charlottesville, where she graduated with an MFA from the University of Virginia. Her work may be found and is forthcoming in Fence, Post Road, Chestnut Review, Poets.org, A Dozen Nothing, and elsewhere. Airy serves as an essays and reviews editor for Poetry Northwest.

Nonfiction

Summer 2025

On Hunger

By Kaitlyn Airy

One thing. One thing. One thing: Tell me there is A meadow, afterward.   — Lucie Brock-Broido, “A Meadow” You can starve to death by living on rabbit meat alone — or the […]