Moriel Rothman-Zecher
Moriel Rothman-Zecher is a Jerusalem-born novelist and poet. His first novel, "Sadness Is a White Bird", was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the National Jewish Book Award, the winner of the Ohioana Book Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Moriel's poetry and essays have been published in Barrelhouse, Colorado Review, The Common, The New York Times, The Paris Review's Daily, and ZYZZYVA, and he is the recipient of the National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' Honor, two MacDowell Fellowships, and Yiddishkayt's Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship. Moriel's second novel, "Before All the World", will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 11th, 2022, and by Corsair Books / Little, Brown, UK, in 2023.