

Zarina Mullan Plath, M.A.
Adjunct Instructor of English
Education:
M.A., Literature and Creative Writing, Illinois State University
B.A., English, Elmhurst College
B.A., Biology, Illinois Wesleyan University
Zarina Mullan Plath earned her master’s in literature and creative writing as a Sutherland
Fellow at Illinois State University, and while in graduate school she was one of two
students in the nation to receive a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship from Poetry Magazine
and the Lilly Foundation. She is also a recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Literary
Award. Her poetry is included in the anthology Sweeping Beauty (U. of Iowa Press,
2005), as well as various literary magazines, and in 2001 she was featured on the
Chicago PBS series Arts Across Illinois. In addition to teaching courses in creative
writing and the American short story, she is a children's book reviewer for the nonprofit
organization Parents' Choice. Her reading and writing interests include culinary history,
South Asian literature (especially in regards to South Asians in America), and children’s
literature.