Courtney Zoffness won the 2017 Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize and the 2016 American Literary Review Fiction Prize, and is a finalist for the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award. She was an Emerging Writing Fellow at the Center for Fiction and a resident artist at The MacDowell Colony. Zoffness’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Southern Review, Indiana Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She directs the Creative Writing Program at Drew University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.