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Rhonda Zimlich Professorial Lecturer Literature

Degrees
MFA Writing
BS Environmental Science

Favorite Spot on Campus
The benches in front of Battelle
Bio
Rhonda Zimlich is the author of an award-winning novel, Raising Panic, coming from Steel Toe Books in 2024. She teaches writing at American University in Washington D.C. She writes about intergenerational trauma and the unbreakable spirit of youth. Her debut novel, Raising Panic, won the Steel Toe Books 2023 Book Award for prose and is expected in 2024. Other 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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Teaching

Spring 2024

  • LIT-215 Writers in Print/Person

  • LIT-400 Creative Writing: Fiction

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

Fall 2024

  • LIT-107 Creative Writing Across Genres

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar

  • WRT-101 College Writing Seminar