Courtney Zoffness is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir-in-essays Spilt Milk (McSweeney’s, 2021), named a best debut of the year by BookPage and Refinery29 and a “must-read” by Publishers Weekly. She has won the Sunday Times Short Story Award and has received fellowships from the Center for Fiction and MacDowell. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, Guernica, and other venues. She directs the creative writing program at Drew University.