Chapbooks

“cave mouth tongue loose” The Head & The Hand Press, 2024 – art by Nora E Luks

An improvised creative conversation between visual artist Nora E Luks and writer Mary Zhou, inspired by Surrealist games. Their drawings, poems, and prophetic questions range anywhere from Greek mythology, the Cultural Revolution, and ancient Chinese divination to YouTube watch histories, psychedelics, and modern dating. At its core, the book explores the role of fortune, good or ill, and how it shapes our relationship to self, lovers, and lineage.

Writing

“Dear small old brother” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2025

“Oracle Portraits” Fence, Fall 2024

“13 and a half attempts to kiss you” The Los Angeles Review, Summer 2024

“Lamb’s Ear” Foglifter, Spring 2024

“2/10/24” A Year in Philly, Winter 2024

“(red by other names)” Postcard, Winter 2024

“Summer Barbeque” Oversound, Fall 2022

“Old heart new tricks” Healing Verse Poetry Line, Fall 2022

“A Patient Record” ANMLY, Fall 2022 (Pushcart Prize nominee)

“Past Medical History” (excerpt from “A Patient Record”) Voicemail Poems, Winter 2024

“Free postcard from the saint shrine” Philadelphia Stories, Summer 2022

“Not just pain, but also immense power” loves me | loves me not, Spring 2021

Comics & Visual Art

“eat / shit” The Kingfisher Magazine, Summer 2024

“Red Thread” The Offing, Spring 2024

PRINT SCREEN, Icebox Project Space, Summer 2023 (Group Exhibition)

“Signs I Want to Wear on My Forehead (an aroace diary)” The Rumpus, Fall 2022

“Cord of Fate” The Divine: Beyond the Bounds of Queerness, Nepantla Cultural Arts Gallery, Summer 2021 (Group Exhibition)

Multimedia Collaborations

“House House” Summer 2021 – Poetry & narration by Mary Zhou; visual art by Kristen Mitchell.

From Living Marks Stories, a collective centering narrative and text in group creative practice through cyborg poetry, collective somatic processing, and secondary lucid dream performance.

Here is an example of cyborg poetry, in which a human narrative is systematically mapped to numbers, colors, words, shapes and phrases. These are reassembled mathematically according to machine selected numerical orders, providing new insight and proposing questions of form and meaning.

Dance

PAPA Ensemble: Gather Together in Their Name Facilitators: Jungwoong Kim and Shavon Norris Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, November 2022

UMA SHOWS UP Choreographer: Ricky “Glytch” Evans Fringe Arts, May 2022