I am honored to have studied fiction with Helen Schulman, Jeffrey Renard Allen, Katherine Vaz, Mary Gordon, and Abigail Thomas; poetry with Karen Swenson, Zoe Anglessey and Marie Ponsot. My writing practice deepened while earning an MFA in Creative Writing at the New School in 2003 where I won its Fiction Prize. From 2003-2016 several of my stories and poems were published in literary journals; two won first prizes, two were nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and I received two grants from Vt Arts Council and Vt Community Foundation. I spent six weeks in Spain on a travel grant from the Jerome Foundation to write about flamenco in 2009/2010. My essay about the experience appeared online at 3Quarks Daily where I contributed essays on dance, theatre and literature from 2009 to 2016.
“A writer of great talent and a writer we will all soon have to reckon with.”
“LUCY’S WEDDING nominated OUTSTANDING NEW PLAY 2019”
“In Homeric terms, Zinn has given birth to a story that would make Penelope — one of the original stalwart women in world literature — very, very proud.”
July 16-Aug. 6, 2023 — a try-out of Her Name Means Memory.
March 21, 2023 — a NYC reading of Her Name Means Memory, a re-imagining of Trojan Women.
January 2023 — a 2-week Bennington College residency to explore Her Name Means Memory.
August 2019 — Lucy’s Weddding produced by Living Room Theatre. Outstanding Original Play nomination by BTCA.
2011 - Jerome Travel Grant to Andalucia, Spain to translate flamenco into prose poems.
2003 - MFA Creative Writing/Fiction, New School
2003 - Winner Fiction chapbook Prize, New School MFA Program
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