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Li Zhuang PhD
Assistant Professor of English
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Communication Arts, Language & Literature DepartmentFunctional Area
EnglishEducation
PhD, Florida State University, English (Creative Writing), 2026MFA, Columbia University, Creative Writing, 2019
BA, Beijing Foreign Studies University, English, 2017
Biography
I am a bilingual educator and cross-genre writer. My teaching has been awarded the Marian Bashinski Award for Excellence in Teaching First-Year Composition and the Fred L. Standley Award for Most Effective Teacher Among Graduate Assistants at Florida State University.
I am a finalist for The Georgia Review’s 2025 Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, the winner of the SAMLA Graduate Student Creative Writing Award, and a runner-up for Grist Journal’s ProForma Contest. My creative work has been featured in The Georgia Review, Indiana Review, Pleiades, The Common, Denver Quarterly, The Madison Review, etc.
I love teaching undergraduate courses in creative writing, global and multiethnic literature, and first-year composition, and I previously served as nonfiction editor at The Southeast Review.