Li Zhuang

Li Zhuang is a PhD candidate studying creative writing at Florida State University. Her work is featured in Pleiades, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The Madison Review, and other journals. She is the winner of a 2025 SAMLA Graduate Student Creative Writing Award and a runner-up for Grist’s ProForma contest. Her poetry chapbook But Octopi Don’t Sing was a runner-up for Purple Ink Press’s chapbook contest and is forthcoming in spring 2026.