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Zinzi Clemmons

Zinzi Clemmons
Zinzi Clemmons is a writer and editor currently based in Los Angeles. She is co-founder and former publisher of Apogee Journal, and currently serves as Deputy Editor for Phoneme Media. Her debut novel, What We Lose, is forthcoming from Viking.


What It Means To Be an Inclusive Literary Journal

Zinzi Clemmons on the Importance of Editors of Color
June 27, 2016  By Zinzi Clemmons
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Mythic Scandinavian Utopias Are a Thing of the Past

Nordic Social Democracy Cannot Solve the World's Problems
April 27, 2016  By Zinzi Clemmons
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Where Is Our Black Avant Garde?

On Creating a New Canon, and Responding to Old Denials
January 29, 2016  By Zinzi Clemmons
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Ta-Nehisi Coates Has Given #Black Lives Matter Its Foundational Text

How to Love an Imperfect Genius, and Other Considerations
October 8, 2015  By Zinzi Clemmons
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Young Black Writers: After Michael Brown

Reflections on One Year of #BlackLivesMatter
August 11, 2015  By Zinzi Clemmons
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A Literary Night in West Philadelphia

Crowed a Community, One Salon at a Time
June 23, 2015  By Zinzi Clemmons
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