Ruth Knafo Setton Follow

Born in Morocco, Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the novels, The Road to Fez, and Zigzag Girl—which won Grand Prize in the ScreenCraft Cinematic Book Competition and First Prize in the Daphne du Maurier Awards. Her TV pilot based on Zigzag Girl won First Prize in the LA Crime and Horror Film Festival, and her feature screenplays have received honors from the Austin Film Festival, Sundance Screenwriters’ Lab, and CineStory Foundation, among others. she has taught Creative Writing at Lehigh University and on Semester at Sea. An NEA fellow, she has published award-winning fiction and creative nonfiction in many print and online journals and anthologies.