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Zinzi Clemmons is an MFA candidate in Fiction at Columbia University. She has served in editorial departments at Little, Brown and Company and The New Yorker. Last year, she was Fiction Editor of Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, and  co-founded Apogee Journal with fellow students of color from Columbia's MFA program. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Transition Magazine, Joyland Magazine, Obsidian: Literature in the African Diaspora and African American Review. She graduated from Brown University with honors in Critical Theory and Literary Arts. She is working on her first novel.