Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness is the author of Spilt Milk: Memoirs (McSweeney’s 2021), named “most anticipated” or “must-read” book by LitHub, Refinery29, The Millions, Good Morning America, and others. Zoffness won the 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award, the largest international prize for short fiction, amid entries from 38 countries. Other honors include fellowships from the Center for Fiction and MacDowell, and the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize. Her writing has appeared in several outlets, including the New York Times, the Paris Review Daily, and Guernica. She directs the Creative Writing Program at Drew University, and lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York.