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About Courtney Zoffness

A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Courtney writes fiction and creative nonfiction. She is the winner of the 2018 Sunday Times Short Story Award as well as many other prizes, fellowships, scholarships, and residencies. Widely published, was named a notable essayist in Best American Essays 2018. and her work will be included in the anthology, Indelible in the Hippocampus: Writings from the Me Too Movement (McSweeney’s, Sept 2019). She'es earned several graduate degrees and is an Assistant Professor of English at Drew University, where she is the director of the Creative Writing Program. Visit courtneyzoffness.com.

Talking writing with award-winning author Courtney Zoffness

Courtney Zoffness and Brian DiNuzzo

Courtney Zoffness interview - Brian DiNuzzo

Courtney Zoffness writes fiction and nonfiction. She won the 2018 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, the American Literary Review Fiction Prize, the Arts & Letters Prize in Creative Nonfiction, and … [Read more...]

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Empty Mirror

Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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