Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Instructor
About Moriel
Moriel Rothman-Zecher is an award-winning novelist and poet. His first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, received the National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' Honor, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the winner of the Ohioana Book Award, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, and long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. His second novel is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. His writing has been published in The New York Times, The Paris Review's Daily, Zyzzyva Magazine, Runner's World, The Tel Aviv Review of Books, The Common Magazine, and in the anthology, Fight of the Century: Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases. He has taught writing at the Miami Writers Institute, online through Catapult, the Miami Book Fair, the Ohioana Library, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature. Moriel lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio, with his family.