Rose Zinnia is a writer living in Cleveland, Ohio. She is the recipient of the Ninth Letter Literary Award, the Vera Meyer Strube Award from the Academy of American Poets, & the Kraft-Kinsey Award from the Kinsey Institute. Her fiction & poetry have been supported by residencies/workshops at Banff Centre for the Arts, Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, & the Tin House Writers Workshop. She 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 also served as associate editor at Indiana Review and as a screener for AWP’s Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Learn more at: www.rosezinnia.earth.

Contributions: Two Poems [Summer 2024]