Sheng Kao is a Taiwanese American writer. Nominated twice for Best of the Net, her work has previously appeared in Apogee Journal, Vagabond City Lit, and AAWW’s The Margins. She studied biology at Oberlin College, where she was awarded the Emma Howell Memorial Poetry Prize.

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Lineage Tracing

By SHENG KAO

O forest full of walking kingdoms. O future homes of abundant mold.