Margot Kahn is the author of the biography Horses That Buck (University of Oklahoma, 2008), which won the High Plains Book Award, and the chapbook A Quiet Day with the West on Fire (Floating Bridge, 2021). Her debut poetry collection, The Unreliable Tree, is forthcoming (Curbstone-Northwestern University, 2025). She is also co-editor of two anthologies—the indie national bestseller Wanting (Catapult, 2023) and the New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice This Is the Place (Seal-Hachette, 2017).

Margot’s poems appear or are forthcoming in such journals as New England Review, New Ohio Review, Poetry Northwest, The Hopkins Review, Shenandoah, Ploughshares, and The Kenyon Review. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Lenny Letter, The Rumpus, Tablet, BUST, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere.

Margot is the recipient of a Hertog Fellowship from Columbia University; awards from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, the Jack Straw Writers Program, and Washington State’s Artist Trust; and residencies from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and the Ragdale Foundation.

Margot holds an MFA from Columbia University and has taught creative writing classes for Seattle Arts & Lectures, Richard Hugo House, the Chuckanut Writers’ Conference, the Miami Book Fair, and the University of Washington, among other places. Born and raised in Ohio, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

CONTACT: margotkahn at gmail dot com

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Photo Credit: Mary Grace Long