Born in Moroc­co, Ruth Knafo Set­ton is the author of the nov­els, The Road to Fez, and Zigzag Girl, which won Grand Prize in ScreenCraft’s Cin­e­mat­ic Book Com­pe­ti­tion and First Prize in the Daphne du Mau­ri­er Awards. An NEA Fel­low and pro­fes­sor of Cre­ative Writ­ing at Lehigh Uni­ver­si­ty, and with Semes­ter at Sea, she trav­els the world in search of wonder.