Moriel Rothman-Zecher biography

Moriel Rothman-Zecher Biography

Moriel Rothman-Zecher is the author of the novels Before All the World and Sadness Is a White Bird, for which he received the National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' Honor, and which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the winner of the Ohioana Book Award, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, the winner of the Cincinnati Books by the Banks Author Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize.

His essays and poems have been published or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Barrelhouse, Colorado Review, The Common Magazine, Cutleaf Journal, Haaretz, the New York Times, Paper Brigade Literary Magazine, The Paris Review's Daily, Runner's World, The Tel Aviv Review of Books, ZYZZYVA Magazine, and elsewhere.

Moriel is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature (2017 & 2020), a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship for Yiddish Cultural Studies (2018-2019), and a Bennington Writing Seminars Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets (2021). Moriel teaches creative writing (fiction and poetry) at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and online through the Catapult Writing Program, and has previously taught at the University of Dayton, and as guest faculty at the Miami Writers Institute.

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