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EMILY ZINNEMANN was born in Los Angeles in 1984. She received an Honors BA in English from the University of Toronto in 2007 & an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan in 2009. Most of her adult life was spent in Toronto, Ontario & Ann Arbor, MI. She recently relocated to Vancouver, British Columbia.
Emily was a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship in 2008 & was awarded the Hopwood Program’s Michael R. Gutterman Prize in Poetry in 2009. She also received trillions of academic awards at the University of Toronto.
In other lives, she worked as a publicist & a university instructor.
Currently a writer, Emily aspires to a second career as a wife slash mother. Participants might encourage her to learn French & flower-arranging, among other things.
i grew up speaking french and i work as a florist for 6 months last year…should we get married now or later? i guess i should take you out to dinner first! next time we chat, i will give you a french lesson.
Your alter-ego, Emily Zinneman (with one N), is a character in an R.L. Stine novel:
http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2009/06/series-2000-20-be-afraid-be-very-afraid.html
At the expense of revealing my questionable literary tastes as a child, my 9 year-old self would be very pleased to find herself in a Goosebumps novel. You?
I love my nose and your eyes. Happy Birthday