Mary Zhou is a multimedia artist from Orange County, CA, currently exploring Chinese ancestral spirituality and queer diasporic identity through poetics and movement. They are the author of cave mouth tongue loose (The Head & The Hand Press, 2024) in collaboration with visual artist Nora E Luks.

 

Mary has received fellowships and support from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Tin House, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, VONA/Voices, and Brooklyn Poets. Their work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and is shared in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Offing, Fence, Foglifter, and ANMLY.