I am an education, writer, and editor based in Berlin.
I also co-run Choo Choo Press, a Risograph zine press, with my friend Emily Bluedorn, who also happened to make the painting above.
Other non-literary interests and pleasures include: diners (Waffle House counts), artists' books, going to the movies, and Hawaiian shirts.
If you’d like to work together or just chat, you can reach me here: taylorzhangx@gmail.com
Poetry:
- “Billet Doux,” (Bayou Magazine, 2024)
- “Marsh,” (Poet Lore, 2023)
- “Candyland Haibun,” “I-Towards a Definition,” (The Rational Creature, 2023)
- “Plastic Summer,” (The Cortland Review, 2022)
- “Still More Beautiful,” Winter 2021. Emily Bluedorn animated a reading of this poem to lovely effect.
- “Pure Pleasure,” (The Massachusetts Review, 2021)
- “Self Portrait as a Lachrymal Vase,” “Swarovski Bright,” (The Vassar Review, 2021)
- “A Softer Kind of Drowning,” “Imitation Crab,” (The Louisville Review, 2020) “A Softer Kind of Drowning” reprinted in Verse Daily, 2021.
Nonfiction:
- Even the Trinkets, (Choo Choo Press 2025). Funding provided by RISD Common Grants.
- “Executions,” (Sine Theta Magazine, 2024)
- “Love Letter to Ben L.,” (Salt Hill Journal, 2022) Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
- “Susan Baker’s How to Humiliate Your Peeping Tom,” “The Six Times Future Raps ‘Nobu’ on Jumpman,” (The Drift Magazine, 2020)
Fiction:
- “Now and Forever,” (Cherry Tree, 2024)
Editorial:
- Editor of Choo Choo Press, a non-profit publishing project dedicated to poetry, nonfiction, and artists' books, 2020-2026.
- Editing of Eric Vanderwall, “Work and What It Is,” Majuscule Lit, forthcoming.
- Proofreading, fact checking, and image sourcing of Thea Applebaum Licht, “Ingestion / Tempting the Temperate,” Cabinet Magazine, 2026.
- Proofreading and fact checking of George Prochnik, “Falling Out of the World,” Cabinet Magazine, 2026.
Copy:
Work samples available upon request.
- For Quit with Jones, a vaping cessation company:
- Content strategy and copy for “Vapeless Summer,” a two-week in-app campaign to help users quit vaping, spanning web and app copy, including daily push notifications.
- Concept and copy for “Welcome to Jones,” a personalized intro card and zine included in each new subscription.
- Blog content for Jones Journal, a weekly deep dive on vaping, nicotine, related wellness, and quitting.