Zoe Mungin Explained

Birth Name:Rana Mungin
Rana Zoe Mungin
Pseudonym:Zoe Mungin
Birth Date:September 23, 1989
Birth Place:Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Death Place:Rochelle Park, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation:Writer, teacher

Rana Mungin (September 23, 1989 – April 27, 2020), known as Zoe Mungin, was an American writer and teacher. She was working on her first novel, Sed Ministrare, at the time of her death.

Mungin died of COVID-19 in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic after twice being denied testing and treatment.[1]

Biography

Mungin was born on September 23, 1989, and raised in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn. She graduated from Bayard Rustin High School for the Humanities and Wellesley College before studying fiction at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she earned a Masters of Fine Arts in 2015.[2] In 2014, she published an account about a racist incident directed at her in a workshop.[3] The retaliation she experienced after speaking out about this event prompted her to file a formal complaint with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination in 2015.[4] [5]

Mungin's writing appeared in literary magazines Quarterly West,[6] the Black Youth Project,[7] and Route Nine.[8] In 2013, she won the AWP Intro Journals prize in fiction.[9] Mungin was interviewed by Wellesley Underground[10] and the Los Angeles Review of Books[11] about her experience as a Black woman writer in a predominantly white MFA program.

Mungin taught composition at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; New Jersey Institute of Technology; and The New School before joining Bushwick Ascend Middle School as a social studies teacher in 2017.[12]

Mungin's 2020 death, and the story of how she was denied medical care during the COVID-19 pandemic, garnered widespread media coverage[13] and outcry that questioned the underlying issues behind her deficient treatment.[14] [15] [16]

Notes and References

  1. News: Murphy. Mary. May 1, 2020. Distraught sister would 'trade places' with Brooklyn teacher who died after 6-week COVID-19 battle. Pix 11. October 5, 2020.
  2. Web site: April 27, 2020. Obituary for Rana Zoe Mungin. October 5, 2020. Hennessey Heights Funeral Home.
  3. Web site: Mungin. Zoe. December 5, 2014. Dear UMass MFA. October 5, 2020. Route Nine.
  4. News: Bourne. Alden. May 4, 2020. 30-Year-Old Rana Zoe Mungin, Teacher And Former UMass Grad Student, Dies Of COVID-19. New England Public Radio. October 5, 2020.
  5. Web site: Mungin. Rana . August 13, 2015. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination . Complaint . October 5, 2020. New England Public Media.
  6. Web site: Mungin . Zoe . Love, from Mexico . October 5, 2020 . Quarterly West . October 26, 2014.
  7. Web site: Mungin . Zoe . Ya Tú Sabes: Being Boricua and Morena . October 5, 2020 . Black Youth Project . February 4, 2015.
  8. Web site: Mungin . Zoe . never get married . October 5, 2020 . Route Nine . December 6, 2013.
  9. News: Kelcey . Parker . 2013 Intro Journals Project Winners . October 5, 2020 . AWP . 2013.
  10. News: Wellesley Writes It: Interview with Zoe Rana Mungin '11 . October 5, 2020 . Wellesley Underground . August 13, 2015.
  11. News: Spahr . Juliana . Young . Stephanie . The Program Era and the Mainly White Room . October 5, 2020 . Los Angeles Review of Books . September 20, 2015.
  12. News: Margosian . Lisa . Statement on the passing of Rana Zoe Mungin . October 5, 2020 . Ascend Press Release . April 28, 2020.
  13. News: Johnson . Paula A. . A 30-year-old teacher's Covid-19 death tells us volumes . October 5, 2020 . CNN . May 31, 2020.
  14. News: Murphy . Mary . Schumer, drug company go to bat for COVID-19 teacher . October 5, 2020 . Pix 11 . March 26, 2020.
  15. Web site: Buttigieg . Pete . A major reason for the racial maternal mortality gap is that Black patients are less likely to be believed. It will be another stain on our country if the same patterns of bias create a COVID-19 treatment gap. . October 5, 2020 . Twitter . March 26, 2020.
  16. News: Bucholtz . Andrew . Real Sports airs criticisms of NBA COVID-19 testing and sports PPP funding, reveals 27 MLB and NHL teams didn't answer a PPP question . October 5, 2020 . Awful Announcing . May 26, 2020.

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