Grace Zhu

My Story

Grace Zhu (she/her) is a third year MFA candidate for fiction at Emerson College. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a degree in Teaching of English and a minor in Global Asian Studies. At Emerson, she is president of Writers of Color and the Chief of Staff and a senior fiction reader for Redivider. Her works have appeared in Oxmag, RipRap and others, and she has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She draws inspiration from horror and fairytales, and particularly enjoys writing about both rabbits and the messy relationships between women.