Moriel Rothman-Zecher is a Jerusalem-born novelist and poet. His first novel, Sadness Is a White Bird, received the National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' Honor, and was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and a National Jewish Book Award, the winner of the Ohioana Book Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. His second novel, Before All the World, was published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and was named an NPR Best Book of 2022. His poetry and essays have been published in The American Poetry Review, Barrelhouse, Colorado Review, The Common, Nashville Review, The New York Times, The Paris Review's Daily, Zyzzyva Magazine, and elsewhere. Moriel is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where he received the Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets. Read more at morielrothmanzecher.com.