Rhonda Zimlich Professorial Lecturer CAS | Literature

Degrees: MFA Writing
BS Environmental Science
Favorite Spot on Campus: The benches in front of Battelle
Bio: Rhonda Zimlich is the author of Raising Panic, winner of the Steel Toe Books 2023 Award for prose. She teaches writing at American University in Washington, DC. She writes about intergenerational trauma and the unbreakable spirit of youth. Her works have appeared in Brevity, Past-Ten, American Writer's Review, and others. She was awarded the 2020 Literary Award in Nonfiction from Dogwood, a Journal of Poetry and Prose at Fairfield University. The same essay earned her an honorable mention in Best American Essays. She received the 2021 Fiction Award from Please See Me.

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