Car­ol Zoref is a fic­tion writer and essay­ist. Her nov­el Bar­ren Island received the A.W.P. Award for the Nov­el (Asso­ci­a­tion of Writer and Writ­ing Pro­grams). Her writ­ing has also appeared in The New York Times The Chris­t­ian Sci­ence Mon­i­tor and more. She is on the fac­ul­ty of Sarah Lawrence Col­lege and also teach­es under­grad­u­ate fic­tion writ­ing at New York University.