Fiona Jin

Fiona Jin Fiona Jin is an accomplished writer, educator, and literary mentor currently taking a gap year from Yale University. She was accepted to Yale via REA and Stanford with a likely letter. A YoungArts Winner with Distinction in Poetry and YoungArts Winner in Spoken Word, Fiona was also named a Chicago Youth Poet Laureate Finalist and Brooklyn Poets Fellow. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Penn Review, wildness, DIALOGIST, The New Journal, and has been nominated for Best of the Net.

She has also contributed to Yale's literary community by reading submissions for The Yale Review and Yale Lit. In addition to poetry, Fiona has received recognition from the National Federation of Press Women, the Bennington Young Writers Award in Creative Nonfiction, and the Center for Fiction’s National Teen Storyteller Contest.

In high school, she served as President of the Creative Writing Club, Editor-in-Chief of the literary magazine Aster Lit, and a National Merit Scholar. She also attended some of the nation’s most selective writing programs, including the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program, the Iowa Young Writers’ Studio, and the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop.

Fiona has been teaching creative writing and writing-contest preparation for three years in both individual and group settings. Drawing on her experience across poetry, spoken word, fiction, and creative nonfiction, she helps young writers develop distinctive voices and approach competitive writing opportunities with creativity and confidence.