Court­ney Zoff­ness writes fic­tion and non­fic­tion. She won the Sun­day Times Short Sto­ry Award, an Emerg­ing Writer Fel­low­ship from the Cen­ter for Fic­tion, the Cre­ative Non­fic­tion prize from Arts & Let­ters, and artist res­i­den­cies from Mac­Dow­ell. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review Dai­ly, the South­ern Review, Lon­greads, and else­where, and she had Notable Best Amer­i­can Essays in 2018 and 2019. She lives with her fam­i­ly in Brook­lyn, New York.