Rhonda Zimlich is the Director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program 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. 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, and the 2024 Nonfiction Award from Barely South Review.
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