Courtney Zoffness is the author of the memoir-in-essays SPILT MILK (McSweeney’s), which Publishers Weekly called “masterful” in a starred review. It appeared on over a dozen “best of” lists. Also a fiction writer, Zoffness was the second-ever woman to win the Sunday Times Short Story Award, the most valuable international prize for short fiction, amid entries from 38 countries. She joined a list of winners that includes Anthony Doerr, Junot Díaz, and Yiyun Li. Other honors include an Emerging Writers Fellowship from The Center for Fiction and two residency fellowships from MacDowell. Her writing has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, the New York Times, The Believer, and elsewhere, and has been translated into several languages.

Zoffness holds graduate degrees from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona, and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. She’s taught at a dozen different institutions and delivered readings and talks at venues across the U.S. and abroad. Currently she directs the creative writing program at Drew University, where she’s an Associate Professor of English. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, NY.

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