Z. T. Corley is an M.F.A. Candidate at Georgia College & State University and a Flannery O'Connor Fellow. She is a recipient of the 2026 AWP Intro Journal Awards. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Callaloo, Quarterly West, Twisted Tongue Magazine, Kitchen Table Quarterly, and elsewhere. She is a reader for Peach, Callaloo, and Sontag Mag. She is currently working on a poetry collection.
Selected work
Three Poems
Liminal Lit, 2026
AWP Intro Journals Award Winner (Poetry): Dear Life
Quarterly West, 2026
[Black girl is crow feathers, is a cracked vase]
Twisted Vine, 2026
Miss you. would like to watch the news with you.
Eureka Literary Magazine, 2026
Staying South
Twisted Tongue Magazine, 2026
The New Mythology
Kitchen Table Quarterly, 2026
The Fall of America
Unendurable Journal, 2026
Praise Song for the Tar Baby
Revolute Lit, 2026
The Black Unicorn
Hum Magazine, 2026
Dream with Elk
The Saartjie Journal, 2026
Two Poems
Outskirts Literary Journal, 2026
Property of Hell
January House Literary Journal, 2025
Do You Have a Family? — Roanoke Review
Roanoke Review, 2025