Margot Kahn

Margot Kahn is a biographer, editor, and poet. Her poetry debut, The Unreliable Tree, was published in 2025 by Northwestern University and her work has recently appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Society of America, American Poets, Literary Hub, Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is also the author of a biography, Horses That Buck (2008), which won the High Plains Book Award, and co-editor of two anthologies: This Is the Place (Seal, 2017) and Wanting (Catapult, 2023). Her work has been recognized with awards from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, and Washington State’s Artist Trust, among others. She lives in Tacoma with her family.