Rose Zinnia (she/they) 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 poetry manuscript, anarchic womb, was 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 Contemporary Verse 2, Black Warrior Review, New Ohio Review, Foglifter, The Journal, Gulf Coast, Sycamore Review, Split This Rock, The Academy of American Poets (poets.org), Ninth Letter, West Branch, & elsewhere. Her work has been supported by residencies/workshops at Banff Centre for the Arts (Fiction), Kenyon Review Writers Workshop (Poetry), & the Tin House Writers Workshop (Fiction). She has taught creative writing & literary editing/publishing at Indiana University, where she received her MFA in Creative Writing.

Rose has over a decade’s experience working in literary editing & publishing—as founder, editor-in-chief, & art director for the small press Monster House 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’s Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.

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❍ “Iwe Don’t Want / to Speak Human / Iwe Want to / Unfurl / Like Birdsong” Pigeon Pages (forthcoming), 2024

❍ “Be/coming Ill/egible” & “Earthhurt” Contemporary Verse 2 (forthcoming), 2024

❍ “(Reassignment) [iwe reassign body…]” Black Warrior Review (forthcoming), 2024

❍ “My Dental Hygienist Confides in Me” New Ohio Review (forthcoming), *finalist for the 2024 NORward Prize for Poetry selected by Naomi Shihab Nye*

❍ “The World is Always Ending / We Stay in Love” Foglifter (forthcoming)

❍ “(Reassignment) [myour neovagina arrives…]” The Journal, 2024

❍ “Prayer / Teleportational Communiquè for Myour Pastfuture Transcestors (A Trans(re)lation)” Gulf Coast, Winter/Spring 2024

❍ “Enfleshed / in the Human / Iwe Flummox / & Skyscrape” Sycamore Review, Issue 34: Coda, 2023, *2024 Pushcart Prize Nominee*

❍ “The Gingko, G-d, & Me” SOLID STATE, 2023

❍ “(Reassignment) [a trick of light… ]” Split This Rock (The Quarry Poem of the Week), 2023

❍ “we need help unbecoming / ourselves” War Poems / We Rested (R. Ring album/zine), 2023

❍ “Constituting Mayhem (Derealized in the CVS)” + “Look (Nonbinary)” + “God Wifi Earth Ong (Nonbinary)” + “Ancient Wind, Empty Skyscraper, Golden Bear (Nonbinary)” Ninth Letter, Fall/Winter 2022-23, *Winner of the Ninth Letter 2022 Literary Award in Poetry, selected by Anthony Cody*

❍ “Skeleton Gender Reveal Party (Nonbinary)” Academy of American Poets, 2022, *Winner of the 2022 Vera Meyer Strube Prize, selected by Michael Mlekoday*

❍ “We Tree Singers Free” (w/ Ross Gay) West Branch, 2021

❍ “Happy Trans Birthday (Nonbinary)” Peach Mag, 2020

❍ “Laster (Nonbinary)” + “Qatar Poem II” The Ocean State Review, 2019

❍ “Epistemological” Academy of American Poets (Poem-A-Day), 2018

❍ “I As In” + “Patrilineal” Peach Mag, 2017

❀ Kinsey Institute (Profile) 2022

❀ The Ocean State Review (Interview) 2020

⚢ That’s So Me: Self-ish Mix 2021 Peach Mag (edited by Sasha Debevec-McKenney)

⚢ Peach Mag Season 1 Yearbook 2017 Peach Mag