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Penny Zang

Penny Zang is a writer and college professor who spends her spare time with her family. She graduated from WVU with her M.F.A in Creative Writing (Fiction). Her work has appeared in publications such as the Pank, Louisville Review, & New Ohio Review. Her debut novel, Doll Parts, will be published on August 26, 2025 by Sourcebooks Landmark.

The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop: How to Decolonize the Creative Classroom What It Is Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshopping
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Favorite Books About Writing & Creativity

Self-Help
Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness
Dear Edward: A Read with Jenna Pick
Nothing to See Here
Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club
Why They Can't Write: Killing the Five-Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Updated)
Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club
The Artist's Way: 30th Anniversary Edition
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir
Lincoln in the Bardo
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America Refuse to Be Done: How to Write and Rewrite a Novel in Three Drafts Razorblade Tears
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2022 Book Gift Guides

Starling House: A Reese's Book Club Pick
The Storm We Made: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Dark Matter
The River We Remember
The Connellys of County Down
The Lies I Tell
Exit West
Sing, Unburied, Sing
The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
Hello Beautiful (Oprah's Book Club)
Lost & Found: Reflections on Grief, Gratitude, and Happiness
How High We Go in the Dark
Our Wives Under the Sea
Harbinger: Poems
Nothing to See Here
The Book of Delights: Essays
You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Quietly Hostile: Essays
Johanna Porter Is Not Sorry (Original)
Big Swiss
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Sula
Marlena
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Girls on Fire
Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
Somewhere Past The End Kaya of the Ocean We Don't Talk about Carol
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2025 Anticipated Debut Novels

Convenience Store Woman
Martyr!
The Antidote
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng: A Darkly Funny, Gory, and Ghostly Horror Novel (Original)
Run for the Hills
Hurricane Girl
Julie Chan Is Dead
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
Victorian Psycho
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