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.