Mary Zhou

Mary Zhou is a multimedia artist from California. They are an MFA candidate in Poetry (‘27) at Washington University in St. Louis, where they received the Norma Lowry Memorial Award and are a Graduate Student Affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity (CRE²). Mary is the recipient of a 2025 Fellowship from Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Their work is shared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Black Warrior Review, and swamp pink. They have presented dance-poetry performances at the Asian Arts Initiative (Philadelphia) and Kemper Art Museum (St. Louis).