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 Â鶹´«Ã½ 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, Â鶹´«Ã½ 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 Â鶹´«Ã½ Essays. She received the 2021 Fiction Award from Please See Me.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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LIT-107 Creative Writing Across Genres
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WRT-101 College Writing Seminar
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WRT-101 College Writing Seminar
Spring 2025
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LIT-107 Creative Writing Across Genres
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LIT-403 Creative Writing: Nonfiction
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WRT-101 College Writing Seminar