Nancy Huang

Nancy Huang grew up in America and China. She is a VONA, Tin House, Watering Hole, and Pink Door fellow. Her debut poetry collection, Favorite Daughter (Write Bloody Publishing), is out of print. Her poetry, plays, and prose are published by The Offing, Cosmonauts Avenue, poets.org, The Margins, and film distribution company A24. She has a poetry MFA from NYU. She sleeps in her bathtub in Brooklyn.

Texas

Neither of us were drunk. It was just dark outside, the streets narrow, and we were turning a bend, and then the quiet thump beneath us, like a balloon deflating.