Grace H. Zhou is a poet, anthropologist, and educator. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, and have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Narrative Magazine, The Margins, Ninth Letter, The Stinging Fly, and elsewhere. Her chapbook, Soil Called a Country, was selected for Newfound’s 2023 Emerging Poets Series. Winner of the 2025 St. Lawrence Award, diasporous is her debut poetry collection. She teaches at the University of Edinburgh.