Lily Hoang

Lily Hoang is the author of eight books, including most recently A Knock at the Door (Texas Review Press’s Innovative Prose Series), Underneath (winner of the Red Hen Press Fiction Award), A Bestiary (PEN/USA Non-Fiction Award finalist), and Changing (recipient of a PEN/Open Books Award). She is a Professor of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, where she teaches in their MFA in Writing Program. 

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Egretta tricolor

The whole congregation judges him, the new guy. They say he’s cocky—hardy har the irony, of course, being that he, like everyone else here, lacks external genitalia—and they have a million more complaints about him, too, starting with each and every feather on his body. Count them up, and maybe it’s not a full million, but who has the patience to go counting feathers?