About

Zack Lesmeister is a mixed queer Vietnamese American poet based out of St. Louis and Madison. Zack has earned their BA in Creative Writing as a First Wave Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Currently they are an MFA candidate in Poetry at Arizona State University. Their work is published in The Offing, The Margins, Nimrod, and elsewhere.

They are the 2017 Youth Poet Laureate of St. Louis. Zack is the recipient of the George B. Hill Poetry Prize and the Charles M. Hart Jr. Writers of Promise Award. They are also a 2021 Semi-Finalist for the Pablo-Neruda Prize for Poetry as well as a Pushcart-Prize Nominee.