Moriel Rothman-Zecher is the recipient of the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ honor for first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird (Atria Books), which was also a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the winner of the Ohio Book Award, a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Moriel’s second novel, Before All the World (FSG), was named an NPR Best Book of 2022. The recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature Moriel is also the author of the poetry collection, I Still Won’t Have Known, which is forthcoming from BOA Editions. Moriel’s work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, Barrelhouse Colorado Review, The Common, Poetry Daily, The New York Times, The Paris Review’s Daily, Zyzzyva, and elsewhere.  Read more http://morielrothmanzecher.com/ .