A 2017 Ten­nessee Williams Schol­ar at the Sewa­nee Writ­ers’ Con­fer­ence, Hilary Zaid is also an alum­na of the Squaw Val­ley Com­mu­ni­ty of Writ­ers and the Tin House Writ­ers’ Work­shop. Her short fic­tion has appeared in print and online venues includ­ing Lilith Mag­a­zine, The South­west Review, The Utne Read­er, CALYX, The San­ta Mon­i­ca Review, and The Tahoma Lit­er­ary Review and has been twice nom­i­nat­ed for the Push­cart Prize. Her first nov­el, Paper is White, was long-list­ed for the 2019 North­ern Cal­i­for­nia Inde­pen­dent Book­sellers’ Award for Fic­tion, is a cur­rent final­ist for the 2019 Fore­word Indies and is the win­ner of the 2019 Inde­p­den­dent Pub­lish­ers’ Book Awards (IPPY) in LGBT+ Fiction.