ANDY QIFENG ZENG
Andy is a writer from Beijing living in New York and a first-year MFA student in fiction at Columbia University. His favorite writer is Marcel Proust, and his favorite book is Humboldt’s Gift. Before turning to fiction, he wrote for the NYU Stern Center for Business & Human Rights, and edited the Harvard Review of Philosophy and Harvard Tech Review.
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I intend to spend every waking hour in the air, to soar with the brio of a sparhawk and glide with a sparrow's ease and float, as Kaira and I do, as the audience perches on the tips of their seats, with the lightness of two creatures who have fully emerged from the chrysalis, how I want to suspend the entire city of Paris or France itself from my lips if I could achieve that, how I aim to exceed every limit placed on me unless I place it there, because that is what I think of when I think of freedom, that I have gathered around me people who understand how to translate fear into possibility, who have no wings but fly beyond the most fantastical vision of the clouds...
— John Keene, Acrobatique