Gina Zucker

Gina Zucker has her BA in English and American Studies from Washington University in St. Louis, and her MFA in creative writing from The New School, where she had the pleasure of studying with Amy Hemple, David Gates and Francine Prose. Before graduate school she worked as a bookstore clerk, a reporter for the Vermont Times (now called Seven Days) and as a health aid at a relic of mental healthcare, the Vermont State Hospital.  She read slush at The Paris Review and worked at the 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center, happily hanging coats and fetching water for megastars of the literary world. During and after grad school, she fact checked articles at Rolling Stone Magazine and led the research department at Cosmopolitan Magazine, for which she also pitched, wrote and edited service and “As Told To” stories. Her writing has been published in several anthologies and in print and online journals, including Tin House, Salt Hill, Hobart.com, Elle, Glamour, GQ, Self, Esme.com, and others. At Pratt, she designs and teaches courses in writing craft, literature, and community engagement. Among her favorite electives to teach are “Dystopian Women” and “Fictive Constraints.” As a coordinator of Pratt Writing’s Student & Faculty Reading Series, she enjoys bringing together students and our amazing faculty to share their work and ideas with the Pratt community.

MFA, Creative Writing, merit scholarship, The New School

BA, English and American Literature, Honors, Washington University in St. Louis

Program in Paris, Sarah Lawrence College

“Child Psychology” Tin House Online https://tinhouse.com/child-psychology/
“Foe in the Kitchen,” Hobart https://www.hobartpulp.com/web_features/foe-in-the-kitchen

“A Hard Worker” Tin House Magazine https://static1.squarespace.com/static/627442749a295910181505bc/t/6277fe09b9fe3d0b7cb70692/1652030992584/Big+People.pdf
“Big People” in Fantastic Women https://tinhouse.com/book/fantastic-women/