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Rose Zinnia (she/they) is a poet, novelist, essayist, teacher, editor, and designer. Born in Akron, Ohio, she is the author of Togethering (Ledge Mule Press, 2024), a chapbook of poetry & lyric essay. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, Zinnia’s honors also include support from Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Kinsey Institute. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in 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 poetry has won awards from Ninth Letter and The Academy of American Poets and has been a finalist/semifinalist for book prizes at Nightboat Books, Persea Books, and Nine Syllables Press. 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 roles at Indiana Review, AWP, Monster House Press, & poiesis and co-organized two award-winning reading series. She works at the LGBTQ+ journal and press Foglifter and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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“Zinnia crosses and blurs and trans*s syntax and semantics into an ecstasy made of earth. Their work teaches me something about how the body is a transmitter and receiver of signals. How the body becomes more and less than itself.”

— Michael Mlekoday

“Zinnia’s poetry is stunning, featuring associative leaps alongside singular images, shifts in time, narrative, identities, and an overall focus on describing the contradictory feelings and thoughts of any given moment.”

— The Ocean State Review

“Whether unpacking their personal history or turning an eye toward the community that continues to serve as both a steadying and motivating force, Zinnia writes with disarming rawness and vulnerability, as though even their pen is somehow made of soft tissue.”

— Matter News

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Rose Zinnia is a poet, novelist, essayist, teacher, editor, and designer. Born in Akron, Ohio, she is the author of Togethering (Ledge Mule Press, 2024), a chapbook of poetry & lyric essay. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, Zinnia’s honors also include support from Vermont Studio Center, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, and the Kinsey Institute. Her writing appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, CV2, Black Warrior Review, Poem-A-Day, The Journal, Gulf Coast, West Branch, among others. Zinnia holds an MFA from Indiana University, works at the LGBTQ+ journal and press Foglifter, and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Rose Zinnia is the author of Togethering, a chapbook of poetry & lyric essay. A 2025 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, she holds an MFA from Indiana University and lives in Cleveland, Ohio.