About Lorene
Lorene Zarou-Zouzounis was born in Ramallah, Palestine and emigrated with her family to Detroit, Michigan at age five. Zarou-Zouzounis began writing poetry at 13, where she found writing a much-needed refuge from her chaotic family life. A first generation college graduate from City College of San Francisco. Zarou-Zouzounis went on to major at San Francisco State University’s renowned Creative Writing Department.
Zarou-Zouzounis’ writes poetry, prose, historical fiction, short stories and science fiction. She has performed hundreds of readings in the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as New York and Los Angeles. She has read at many universities, including Stanford, Pomona, SFSU, UCSC, USF, and UC Berkeley. She co-designed and taught poetry workshops for children as part of a national PTA arts enrichment program.
Zarou-Zouzounis has been published in magazines, and 19 poetry anthologies and 4 poems, plus an interview on Ladige Review-Californian Poet’s-part three.
Awards
Finalist for two poems entered in the 2011 Indie Writing Contest-- (Author Solutions, Inc., the San Francisco Writers Conference, and San Francisco University Partner for this contest.)
Poetry anthology includes 2 poems- Winner of the PEN Oakland Literary. The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology; editor Nathalie Handal, Interlink.
Poem published in Maintenant 18, Three Rooms Press was nominated in 2024 for the Pushcart Prize