Zoe Fish­man is the 2020 Geor­gia Author of the Year. She is the best­selling author of five pre­vi­ous nov­els and has won sev­er­al awards includ­ing Book­list’s ​“Top 10 Books of the Year” and an Indi­eNext Pick. She’s been fea­tured on City Lights with Lois Reitzes, and in Pub­lish­ers Week­ly and The Atlanta Jew­ish Times among oth­ers. Her essays have been pub­lished in The New York Times’s Mod­ern Love col­umn, The Atlanta Jour­nal Con­sti­tu­tion, and Mod­ern Loss. Zoe was the Direc­tor of The Decatur Writ­ers Stu­dio and a vis­it­ing writer at SCAD Atlanta. She lives in Decatur with her two sons.