Minghan Zou

Minghan Zou (he/him/his) is a junior at Phillips Exeter Academy. Originally from Shanghai, his writing explores themes of isolation, identity, natural wonder, and culture. He is affiliated with the WORD! Poetry club, and his work appeared in the Kenyon Review Young Writers Anthology, the Exeter Asian Magazine, Beyond Words, and Tap Into Poetry. His work is also forthcoming in the Eunoia Review and The Academy of the Heart and Mind. Outside of poetry, he hosts two radio shows and enjoys reading historical books and listening to music.

In Among the Stalks: A Canola’s Memoir

Between the yellow canola stalks that whistled in the wind, rippled like waves, shimmered like the hush of sunlight on silk, and towered two heads above me, I forgot the why and the how. They had slipped from my mind like rapeseed, dispersing in a summer wind.
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