Winniebell Xinyu Zong

Winniebell Xinyu Zong (MFA: Cornell University) is the 2024-2025 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow. They are a Chinese poet and chapbook editor at Newfound Press. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, Poetry Daily, the Kenyon Review, and the Margins, among others, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best of the Net, and AWP’s Intro Journals Project. Winner of the Meridians Elizabeth Alexander Creative Writing Award and the Mellon Fellowship for the Urban Justice Lab, Zong previously taught creative writing as a lecturer at Cornell University, where they received their MFA.