is a poet, performer, playwright, and filmmaker from St. Louis, Missouri. They are the Poetry Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Zack's writing has been supported by Tin House, Lambda Literary, The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, & OMAI First Wave. Their writing is published in The Missouri Review, Foglifter, The Offing, The Margins, Nimrod International, and elsewhere. Zack has written and performed for venues including The Lincoln Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Maui Arts Cultural Center, Brave New Voices, The Theatre Communications Group National Conference, and elsewhere. Their debut film was published by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center.

Select Online Poems

“Storage Unit with Anonymous”, Foglifter, forthcoming

What We Hold, The Offing, June 2022

WARNING, The Margins, Jan 2021

On Being a Fetish, Index Magazine, Fall 2019

Shots on the House, Button Poetry, November 2019

Tongue Twister, Button Poetry, Feb 2019

I’m sorry sister; I don’t know the answer, SAND Journal, Issue 26

Lesson 1: Notes on Tones; Rosebud, Issue 70

Washington Avenue Sonnet; Rosebud, Issue 70

On the Lineage of Survival; A Series of Exit Strategies, Nimrod, Awards 43

Birds of Prey, Nimrod International, Awards 43

2024 Summer Workshop Fellow | Tin House

2024 Writer-In-Residence | Tin House

2023 Lambda Literary Fellow

2023 Ronald Wallace Poetry Thesis Prize | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Judged by Stephen Espada Dawson

2023 92NY Discovery Poetry Prize Semi-Finalist | 92NY

2022 Pushcart-Prize Nominee | The Offing

2022 The Phillip H. Wang Memorial Prize in Poetry |University of Wisconsin-Madison | Judged by Adrienne Chung

2021 George B. Hill Poetry Prize | University of Wisconsin - Madison | Judged by Jari Bradley

2021 Charles M. Hart Jr. Writer of Promise Award | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Itola Jones

2021 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize Semi-Finalist | Nimrod International

2019 Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival Champion

2017 St. Louis Youth Poet Laureate

Berkley Beacon, Interview, September 2019

Saint Louis on the Air, from Saint Louis Public Radio, Featured Guest, Featured on NPR, July 2019

Queer Check-Ins: Paul Tran, Art Directed and Filmed, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, Dec 2018