The Last of Our Kind
Author: Rena Hollister
Rena Hollister is the winner of 2024 Linda J. Zhang Award for Writing Achievement.
Rena Hollister is a talented writer. She has won Young Writers Contest awards in fiction in all four of her high school years, including First Place in her senior year.
Rena has been an impressive student. She is a National Merit Scholarship Commended Student. She is also a member of Greeley’s 2023 National Academic Challenge Championship-winning team and is involved in Science Olympiad.
It’s Time to Cool It Down: Acting in the Face of Climate Change
Author: Alexa Troob
Alexa Troob is the winner of 2023 Linda J. Zhang Award for Writing Achievement.
the girl who used to be the sea
Author: Devisi Goel
Devisi Goel is the winner of 2022 Linda J. Zhang Award for Writing Achievement.
Here is her poem about “the girl who used to be the sea”. We hope this beautiful poem not only makes people realize the “pain” and calamity resulting from human behaviors, but also brings about more actions to protect the environment.
BILLIE
Author: Erica Dunne
Erica Dunne is the winner of 2021 Linda J. Zhang Award for Writing Achievement.
Here we showcase an environment-themed writing by her as part of the award. She wrote a story about “Billie”, the elephant from the elephant’s perspective. In her words, working on this writing piece has given her “a chance to reflect on the environment and our relationship to it”. We hope her writing will also inspire more people to reflect our relationship with nature, animals and the earth, as we are all part of the ecosystem that should coexist in harmony.