Bellingham Review Contributor
Zixuan (Angel) Xin (she/her) is the Editor-in-Chief of The Gaia Review and The Lit, founded in 1895. She is the winner of Sine Theta Magazine’s 7th Annual Writing Contest, and a finalist for the 49th Parallel Award for Poetry and the 9th annual Granger’s Poetry Contest. Her works are forthcoming or featured in Sine Theta, The Columbia Review, The Columbia University Press, Milk Press, and Eunoia Review. She is recognized by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the Poetry Society of New York, the John Locke Institute, and ONLY POEMS.
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