Zib­by Owens is the award-win­ning host of the pod­cast Total­ly Booked with Zib­by and the week­ly TV show Total­ly Booked on JBS. Author of six books includ­ing two best­sellers, On Being Jew­ish Now: Reflec­tions from Authors and Advo­cates and Blank: A Nov­el, she owns Zibby’s Book­shop, an inde­pen­dent book­store in San­ta Mon­i­ca, CA, and Zib­by Pub­lish­ing, a bou­tique pub­lish­ing house, all part of Zib­by Media. She runs an events and retreats series, Zibby’s Book Club, and the Z.I.P. mem­ber­ship pro­gram. A grad­u­ate of Yale Uni­ver­si­ty and Har­vard Busi­ness School, Zib­by lives in New York (and some­times L.A.) with her hus­band and four chil­dren ages 11 to 18.