Zinzi Clemmons

Zinzi Clemmons is a writer and editor raised in Philadelphia, with roots in South Africa and Trinidad. She received her BA in Critical Theory and Literary Arts from Brown, and her MFA in Fiction from Columbia. Her writing has appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story, Transition, The Paris Review Daily, and elsewhere. She has received fellowships and support from The MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She is co-founder and former publisher of Apogee Journal, a contributing editor to LitHub.com, and her debut novel, What We Lose, was published by Viking in 2017.