Margot Kahn
Poetry
Tacoma, WA
Margot Kahn is a poet, biographer, essayist, and editor. She is the author of The Unreliable Tree: Poems (Northwestern University Press, 2025) and a chapbook, A Quiet Day with the West on Fire (Floating Bridge Press, 2021). Her biography of rodeo legend “Cody” Bill Smith, Horses That Buck (University of Oklahoma, 2008), won a Walter Marvin Rumsey Grant and the High Plains Book Award. Her recent work has appeared in such places as the Kenyon Review, New England Review, Hopkins Review, Literary Hub, and The New Yorker. Together with Kelly McMasters, Margot is also co-editor of two anthologies—This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home (Seal Press, 2017) was a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and Wanting: Women Writing About Desire (Catapult, 2023) was a Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ABA indie national bestseller. Margot earned her MFA from Columbia University and has received support from the Seattle Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture, 4Culture, the Jack Straw Writers Program, Washington State’s Artist Trust, Ohioana Library, and the Willa Cather Foundation, among other places. Originally from Ohio, she lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.