Courtney Zoffness won the Sunday Times Short Story Award, the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize, and an Emerging Writers Fellowship from the Center for Fiction. Her work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, The Southern Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, and elsewhere, and she had notable Best American Essays in 2018 and 2019. She directs the creative writing program at Drew University. In residence in 2018, she completed an essay from her collection of memoirs, SPILT MILK, about what we inherit from generations past—biologically, culturally, spiritually—and what we pass on to our children.
Courtney Zoffness
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Disciplines:
Literature – fiction
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Residencies: 2017, 2018
More:
courtneyzoffness.com
Portrait by: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey
Studios
Putnam
Courtney Zoffness worked in the Putnam studio.
Originally known simply as Graphics Studio, this building was converted to its current use between 1972 and 1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation. Before this transformation, the building served as both a powerhouse and pump house for the property. Well water was drawn from a large cistern and…