My Coworker Thought I Didn’t Know What A Lox Bagel Was, So He Said to Me, “It’s Just Like Sushi”

Xinyue Huang is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Chinese currently pursuing an MFA in poetry at NYU. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in The Georgia Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2023 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize.