Margot Kahn is the author of a forthcoming poetry debut, The Unreliable Tree (Northwestern University Press, 2025) and a biography, Horses That Buck (University of Oklahoma Press), which received the High Plains Book Award, a Walter Ramsey Marvin Grant, and was a finalist for the WWA Spur Award. Together with Kelly McMasters, she is co-editor of two essay anthologies—the New York Times Editors’ Choice collection This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press) and the ABA national bestseller Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult). Her poetry, essays, and criticism can be found in New England Review, New Ohio Review, Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Publishers Weekly, BUST, and elsewhere.

Margot earned her MFA from Columbia University. She has received support from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, the Jack Straw Writers Program, Washington State’s Artist Trust, Ohioana Library, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Willa Cather Foundation, among other places. Originally from Ohio, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

CONTACT: margotkahn at gmail dot com

Photo Credit: Mary Grace Long