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Winniebell Xinyu Zong is born and raised in an industrial city in China. She is the winner of Columbia Journal’s Womxn’s History Month Special Issue in poetry, the Associate Editor of Pleiades Magazine and Frontier Poetry, and the co-EIC of Touchstone Literary Magazine. Her recent poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, The Penn Review, and Sierra Nevada Review, among others. Zong currently pursues an English M.A. at Kansas State University. You can find her online at winniebellxzong.com and on Twitter and Instagram @winniebell_zong.
Like hard candy. Tough. Sweet.