Professional Summary
Rose Zinnia is a writer, editor, teaching artist, and designer. Born in Akron, Ohio, she is the author of Togethering (Ledge Mule Press, 2024), a hybrid chapbook of poetry & lyric essay. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, Zinnia’s honors also include fellowships from Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Kinsey Institute. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Michigan Quarterly Review, The Offing, POETRY, CV2, Black Warrior Review, Poem-A-Day, The Journal, New Ohio Review, Gulf Coast, Split This Rock, and West Branch, among others.
Zinnia’s work has won awards from Ninth Letter and The Academy of American Poets. She is an alumnus of Kenyon Review & Tin House workshops and holds an MFA from Indiana University, where she taught creative writing & literary editing/publishing. She has served in editorial or jural roles for Vermont Studio Center, The Cincinnati Review, Indiana Review, and AWP. She works in production at the LGBTQ+ journal and press Foglifter and is a doctoral student at the University of Cincinnati.