Margot Kahn is the author of a collection of poems, The Unreliable Tree, and the biography of champion bronc rider “Cody” Bill Smith, Horses That Buck. Together with Kelly McMasters, she is also co-editor of two anthologies–the New York Times Editors’ Choice collection This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home and Wanting: Women Writing About Desire, a Library Journal Best Book of the Year and ABA indie national bestseller. Her work has been recognized with the High Plains Book Award, the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, the Walter Marvin Rumsey Grant, and awards from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, the Jack Straw Writers Program, Washington State’s Artist Trust, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Willa Cather Foundation. Her essays, poems, and reviews have appeared in such places as The New Yorker, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, Shenandoah, The Rumpus, and BUST. A native of Ohio and a graduate of Columbia University’s MFA program, Margot now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family where she writes, hikes, bakes, and serves on the board of the University of Washington Press.

CONTACT: margotkahn at gmail dot com

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