Sarah Jiang

Sarah Jiang is an MFA student at the University of Kentucky. She writes mainly short stories. She holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and is hoping to incorporate scientific methods into her own creative writing process. She is the fiction editor for Pluck: the journal of Affrilachian arts and culture, and a reader for the New Limestone Review.

Panning for Gold

I was born in the winter of 1982. A week later, my father transported me and my mother from the town hospital back home on a wooden horse cart. The unrelenting snowflakes oscillated from the dreary sky and soon smothered the blanket under which my mother cuddled her infant daughter. Many years later my mother confided, or complained, that my father grudgingly hauled the cart choosing broken road and stones for the wheels to roll over to declare his vexation at having another girl.

Issue 42, October 2020

Sarah Jiang

Sarah Jiang is an MFA student at the University of Kentucky. She writes mainly short stories. She holds a Ph.D. in Microbiology and is hoping to incorporate scientific methods into her own creative writing process. She is the fiction editor for Pluck: the journal of Affrilachian arts and culture, and a reader for the New Limestone Review.

Panning for Gold

I was born in the winter of 1982. A week later, my father transported me and my mother from the town hospital back home on a wooden horse cart. The unrelenting snowflakes oscillated from the dreary sky and soon smothered the blanket under which my mother cuddled her infant daughter. Many years later my mother confided, or complained, that my father grudgingly hauled the cart choosing broken road and stones for the wheels to roll over to declare his vexation at having another girl.

Issue 42, October 2020

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