VIVIAN ZHU
(she/her/她) is a Chinese-American writer from Adlai E. Stevenson High School. She has been recognized by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers and Bennington College. Her work is published in Diode, National Poetry Quarterly, CHEAP POP, and elsewhere. A lover of all things orange, she can be found peeling tangerines for her younger brother.
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EXPERIENCE
2022
Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, mentored by Erin Jones
2021
Between the Lines: Peace and the Writing Experience
Summer Writing Residency at the University of Iowa Belin-Blank Center
Polyphony Lit editor
PUBLICATIONS
2022
American Ashes, Summer soliloquy for the girl who keeps on giving | diode poetry journal
victory lapse | the tide rises, the tide falls
Saltwater Dog | CHEAP POP
Somewhere in Southern Florida | Body Without Organs
Abecedarian for Aunthood | Eunoia Review
2021
aubade for the diasporic poet's achilles heel | The Incandescent Review
Mother, Martyr | Belin-Blank Anthology
Soothsayer | Between the Lines: Peace & the Writing Experience Summer Anthology
Confessions at Tiananmen Square | Aster Lit
HONORS
2022
Pushcart Prize & Best of the Net | nominated by CHEAP POP
Fractured Lit Reprint Contest | shortlist
JUST POETRY!!! National Poetry Quarterly | national winner
Bennington College Young Writers Awards | 2nd place, creative nonfiction
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Gold Key (x3), Silver Key (x2), H.M. (x2)
2021
University of Wisconsin Whitewater Creative Writing Festival | 3rd place, personal essay
Aster Lit | Theme Winner
Cathartic Literary Magazine | Editor's Choice
Scholastic Art & Writing Awards | Gold Key, regional Best-in-Grade