Penn State Altoona

Emerging Writer-in-Residence

Zana worked at Penn State Altoona as a Emerging Writer-in-Residence

The Ellis School

English Teacher

Zana worked at The Ellis School as a English Teacher

Fairmont State University

English Instructor

Zana worked at Fairmont State University as a English Instructor

Community College of Vermont

Humanities Instructor

Courses Taught:
Global Issues in the Media
The Vietnam War in Literature and Film

The Taft School

English Teacher

Zana worked at The Taft School as a English Teacher

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Gojira

Ninth Letter

Poem. Summer 2014. Online.

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Gojira

Ninth Letter

Poem. Summer 2014. Online.

"My Mother Vists the Hagia Sofia"

The Pacifica Literary Review

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Gojira

Ninth Letter

Poem. Summer 2014. Online.

"My Mother Vists the Hagia Sofia"

The Pacifica Literary Review

Rocks, and Lava

The Potomac Review

Short story, Summer "Hot Opener."

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Gojira

Ninth Letter

Poem. Summer 2014. Online.

"My Mother Vists the Hagia Sofia"

The Pacifica Literary Review

Rocks, and Lava

The Potomac Review

Short story, Summer "Hot Opener."

Providence

Finishing Line Press

The poems of Zana Previti’s first collection, Providence, possess the rare capacity to make the personal appear universal and the universal appear personal. She blends present and historical time, immediate and distant place, and she applies layer after layer of rich details in lines that vary from a terse, trimeter-like pace to Whitmanic lines that threaten to sweep beyond the margins. –Ron McFarland, author of Subtle Thieves (Pecan Grove Press, 2012) and Stranger in Town: New and Selected Poems (Confluence Press, 2000), among others. He teaches at the University of Idaho. In language at once spare and unsparing, Zana Previti’s staggeringly wide-ranging and pitch-perfect “Providence” takes us from the “immense / old age of the Atlantic” through war-time starvation experiments, family, Kung Fu movies, Greek myth, bathtub mystery novel reading, a Galveston hurricane, environmental degradation, and King Lear—reckoning in deeply humane ways with individual and historically-aware questions of the human capacity for suffering and love. “These stones are the generations / upon which we build images of the end of us,” she writes, using her formal and lyrical skills to again and again find these “images of the end” and their complex corollaries in our continuance and living. “Kill us if you will / but kill us in the light,” Ajax is quoted as crying, and this poem—which is like nothing you’ve ever quite seen before—is a new, acute light. –Alexandra Teague, author of the poetry collections The Wise and Foolish Builders (fPersea Books, 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea Books, 2010), which which won the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry and the 2010 California Book Award. In 2011 she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Gojira

Ninth Letter

Poem. Summer 2014. Online.

"My Mother Vists the Hagia Sofia"

The Pacifica Literary Review

Rocks, and Lava

The Potomac Review

Short story, Summer "Hot Opener."

Providence

Finishing Line Press

The poems of Zana Previti’s first collection, Providence, possess the rare capacity to make the personal appear universal and the universal appear personal. She blends present and historical time, immediate and distant place, and she applies layer after layer of rich details in lines that vary from a terse, trimeter-like pace to Whitmanic lines that threaten to sweep beyond the margins. –Ron McFarland, author of Subtle Thieves (Pecan Grove Press, 2012) and Stranger in Town: New and Selected Poems (Confluence Press, 2000), among others. He teaches at the University of Idaho. In language at once spare and unsparing, Zana Previti’s staggeringly wide-ranging and pitch-perfect “Providence” takes us from the “immense / old age of the Atlantic” through war-time starvation experiments, family, Kung Fu movies, Greek myth, bathtub mystery novel reading, a Galveston hurricane, environmental degradation, and King Lear—reckoning in deeply humane ways with individual and historically-aware questions of the human capacity for suffering and love. “These stones are the generations / upon which we build images of the end of us,” she writes, using her formal and lyrical skills to again and again find these “images of the end” and their complex corollaries in our continuance and living. “Kill us if you will / but kill us in the light,” Ajax is quoted as crying, and this poem—which is like nothing you’ve ever quite seen before—is a new, acute light. –Alexandra Teague, author of the poetry collections The Wise and Foolish Builders (fPersea Books, 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea Books, 2010), which which won the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry and the 2010 California Book Award. In 2011 she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mosura

Stonecoast Review

Poem

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Gojira

Ninth Letter

Poem. Summer 2014. Online.

"My Mother Vists the Hagia Sofia"

The Pacifica Literary Review

Rocks, and Lava

The Potomac Review

Short story, Summer "Hot Opener."

Providence

Finishing Line Press

The poems of Zana Previti’s first collection, Providence, possess the rare capacity to make the personal appear universal and the universal appear personal. She blends present and historical time, immediate and distant place, and she applies layer after layer of rich details in lines that vary from a terse, trimeter-like pace to Whitmanic lines that threaten to sweep beyond the margins. –Ron McFarland, author of Subtle Thieves (Pecan Grove Press, 2012) and Stranger in Town: New and Selected Poems (Confluence Press, 2000), among others. He teaches at the University of Idaho. In language at once spare and unsparing, Zana Previti’s staggeringly wide-ranging and pitch-perfect “Providence” takes us from the “immense / old age of the Atlantic” through war-time starvation experiments, family, Kung Fu movies, Greek myth, bathtub mystery novel reading, a Galveston hurricane, environmental degradation, and King Lear—reckoning in deeply humane ways with individual and historically-aware questions of the human capacity for suffering and love. “These stones are the generations / upon which we build images of the end of us,” she writes, using her formal and lyrical skills to again and again find these “images of the end” and their complex corollaries in our continuance and living. “Kill us if you will / but kill us in the light,” Ajax is quoted as crying, and this poem—which is like nothing you’ve ever quite seen before—is a new, acute light. –Alexandra Teague, author of the poetry collections The Wise and Foolish Builders (fPersea Books, 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea Books, 2010), which which won the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry and the 2010 California Book Award. In 2011 she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mosura

Stonecoast Review

Poem

My Nephew Takes a Bath

Ninth Letter

Poem. Spring/Summer 2015.

Visiting Emily Dickinson's House in Amherst, MA

American Poetry Review, May/June 2017

The Chilling Simple

Livingston Press

Novel

Instruments

The Masters Review

Short story.

Gojira

Ninth Letter

Poem. Summer 2014. Online.

"My Mother Vists the Hagia Sofia"

The Pacifica Literary Review

Rocks, and Lava

The Potomac Review

Short story, Summer "Hot Opener."

Providence

Finishing Line Press

The poems of Zana Previti’s first collection, Providence, possess the rare capacity to make the personal appear universal and the universal appear personal. She blends present and historical time, immediate and distant place, and she applies layer after layer of rich details in lines that vary from a terse, trimeter-like pace to Whitmanic lines that threaten to sweep beyond the margins. –Ron McFarland, author of Subtle Thieves (Pecan Grove Press, 2012) and Stranger in Town: New and Selected Poems (Confluence Press, 2000), among others. He teaches at the University of Idaho. In language at once spare and unsparing, Zana Previti’s staggeringly wide-ranging and pitch-perfect “Providence” takes us from the “immense / old age of the Atlantic” through war-time starvation experiments, family, Kung Fu movies, Greek myth, bathtub mystery novel reading, a Galveston hurricane, environmental degradation, and King Lear—reckoning in deeply humane ways with individual and historically-aware questions of the human capacity for suffering and love. “These stones are the generations / upon which we build images of the end of us,” she writes, using her formal and lyrical skills to again and again find these “images of the end” and their complex corollaries in our continuance and living. “Kill us if you will / but kill us in the light,” Ajax is quoted as crying, and this poem—which is like nothing you’ve ever quite seen before—is a new, acute light. –Alexandra Teague, author of the poetry collections The Wise and Foolish Builders (fPersea Books, 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea Books, 2010), which which won the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry and the 2010 California Book Award. In 2011 she received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Mosura

Stonecoast Review

Poem

My Nephew Takes a Bath

Ninth Letter

Poem. Spring/Summer 2015.

Killing

Blast Furnace Literary Journal

Poem. Spring/Summer 2014. Online.