Bio

Susan Lynn Zenker is a full-time writer of short stories, plays, and poetry.

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Her poems have appeared in Mezcla, The Rio Grande Review, Newspaper Tree, Best Poem: A Poetry Journal, The South Boston Literary Gazette, Latino Stuff Review, The South Carolina Review, Strong Verse, The Writer’s Exchange,  El Portal, Chrysalis, and others. Her plays “Welcome Wagon” and “Neighborhood Watch” were presented in public readings at the Fox Fine Arts Theater and at the Chamizal Theaters in El Paso. She has participated in poetry readings at El Paso Community College and at the El Paso Public Library.

She is a member of savvyauthors.com.

Her story “Fiend” won tenth place in the Children’s/YA category of the Writer’s Digest annual contest, 2018.  Her story “What I’d Be Without You” won second place in the El Paso Writers’ League competition also in 2018.

In past years, she taught English as a Second Language in a Family Literacy setting for the Socorro Independent School District for fourteen years in El Paso, Texas, after having lived in New England, Mexico City, and Miami.  She once taught English Language and Literature courses at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and English Composition at the University of Miami as well as ESL at El Paso Community College.

Her current passions are playwriting and romance writing for teens.