Biography
Bonnie ZoBell is a fiction writer completing a collection of connected 
stories set in the North Park area of San Diego and a chapbook of flash fiction about women who are whack jobs. She’s received an NEA for her fiction, the Capricorn Novel Award, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award for a story that was later read on NPR. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Night Train, The Greensboro Review, New Plains Review, PANK, Cosmopolitan Magazine, and others. A story from SmokeLong Quarterly was included in Wigleaf’s Top 50, another published by Storyglossia was named as a notable story of 2010 by storySouth’s Million Writers Award, and one was recently nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize by The Los Angeles Review. She has held residencies at VCCA, Yaddo, MacDowell, Wurlitzer, Montalvo, Dorland, and other colonies. After receiving an MFA from Columbia on fellowship, she has been teaching at San Diego Mesa College where she is the Creative Writing Coordinator for many years. Currently she is Associate Editor of The Northville Review. In their casita in San Diego, she and her two dogs, two cats, and one husband plant as many succulents as can possibly fit into their small yard. More of her work can be found at www.bonniezobell.com.
