Rose Zinnia
PHOTO BY KATE SWEENEY
Rose Zinnia (she/they) is the author of Togethering (Ledge Mule Press, 2024). She is the recipient of awards from Ninth Letter, The Academy of American Poets, & The Kinsey Institute. Her poetry has been a finalist for the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize & a semifinalist for the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize from Persea Books.
Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, CV2, Black Warrior Review, New Ohio Review, Foglifter, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Split This Rock, The Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, Ninth Letter, West Branch, & elsewhere. Her fiction & poetry have been supported by residencies at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity & The Kinsey Institute, and workshops with the Kenyon Review & Tin House.
She has taught creative writing & literary editing/publishing at Indiana University, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing. Rose was founder, editor-in-chief, & art director for Monster House Press and the literary journal poiesis. She was co-organizer of two award-winning reading series: Monster House Presents & SYZYGY. She has also served as Associate Editor at Indiana Review and as a screener for AWP. She lives in Cleveland, Ohio where she is a graphic designer and works at Foglifter Journal.
