![]() In early 2012, Zink sent Franzen her collected manuscripts. Zink has been married twice, to US citizen Benjamin Alexander Burck and to Israeli composer and poet Zohar Eitan.Īfter 15 years writing fiction exclusively for a single pen pal, the Israeli postmodernist Avner Shats, Zink caught the attention of Jonathan Franzen. She moved to Germany in May 2000, completing a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Tübingen. Zink has worked as a secretary at Colgate-Palmolive and as a technical writer in Tel Aviv. In 1993, while living in West Philadelphia, Zink founded a zine called Animal Review, which ran until 1997. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary. The two writers began a c Nell Zink was raised in rural Virginia, a setting she draws on in her second novel, Mislaid. After 15 years writing fiction exclusively for a single pen pal, the Israeli postmodernist Avner Shats, Zink caught the attention of Jonathan Franzen. ![]() ![]() Zink has been married twice, to US citizen Benjamin Alexander Burck and to Israeli composer and poet Zohar Eitan. ![]() Nell Zink was raised in rural Virginia, a setting she draws on in her second novel, Mislaid. ![]()
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