February 1, 2026
Stephanie Chang
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Stephanie Chang (she/they) is a Hong Kong-Taiwanese Canadian writer and contemporary art historian based in New York City. A 2025 Lambda Literary Fellow in Young Adult Fiction, her work appears in Sixth Finch, The Adroit Journal, Waxwing, The Rumpus, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others. She holds a B.A. in English and Art History from Kenyon College.
Because I hated what winter, cruel and astonishing,
required of me. In the red snow, I picture white irises
that detonate in my sleep. I don’t actually know what
they sound like; I trust you. For centuries, I exiled myself
I like to think that religion has exhausted itself in my poems at last, that I’ve outwitted it. If it’s an inheritance, I’d like to think it spent. Religion was exhausting, the show and dance, there’s always an outpouring, an excess of sin now transmutated into salvation, enough to induce awe.