Kathy Jiang
Kathy Jiang (she/her) is a poet and therapist from the D.C. area. Her work, which has been nominated for Best New Poets and received support from Brooklyn Poets, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and other organizations, is featured or forthcoming in Ninth Letter, Hayden's Ferry Review, Sundog Lit, Oxford Poetry, and elsewhere. She is an editor and facilitator at Seventh Wave and a poetry reader at Adroit.
I write about mothers, lovers, and others. My work is concerned with themes of origin, intergenerational haunting, the coexistence of violence and softness in bodies, and a queer, diasporic feminine consciousness. To address these themes in both language and container, my poetry spans forms like the abecedarian; visual, erasure poetry; and more traditional composition of couplets, monostitches, and such as well.
In many ways, I am always trying to answer Bhanu Kapil's twelve questions, posed in The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, particularly “Who are you and whom do you love?” and “Where did you come from / how did you arrive?”
My favorite poem of all time is Anne Carson's “The Glass Essay.”
