A Quiet Day With the West on Fire

Margot Kahn is the author of the biography Horses That Buck, winner of the High Plains Book Award, and co-editor of the anthology This Is the Place, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her essays and reviews have appeared in The Rumpus, Lenny Letter, The Los Angeles Review, BUST, and Publishers Weekly, among other places. Winner of the Crab Creek Review 2019 Poetry Prize and finalist for Palette Poetry’s 2019 Emerging Poet Prize, her poems have appeared in Poetry Northwest, New England Review, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, New Ohio Review, and elsewhere. Margot earned an MFA from Columbia University and has been supported by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture and ArtistTrust. She’s currently at work on a new biography, Until Tomorrow, and a forthcoming anthology, Wanting (Catapult 2023).