Moriel Rothman-Zecher
About the Teacher
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Moriel Rothman-Zecher is the author of the novels Before All the World (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), which was named an NPR Book of 2022, and Sadness Is a White Bird (Atria Books / Simon and Schuster), for which he received the National Book Foundation’s ‘5 Under 35’ Honor, and which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the winner of the Ohioana Book Award, a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize.
His poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Barrelhouse, Colorado Review, The Common, The New York Times, The Paris Review’s Daily, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.
Moriel is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature (2017 & 2020), a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship for Yiddish Cultural Studies (2018-2019), and holds an MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where he was the recipient of a Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets (2021-2023).
Moriel has taught creative writing at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH; online through the Catapult Writing Program, and as guest faculty at the Miami Writers Institute.
Moriel is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Swarthmore College.
His poems and essays have been published or are forthcoming in The American Poetry Review, Barrelhouse, Colorado Review, The Common, The New York Times, The Paris Review’s Daily, ZYZZYVA, and elsewhere.
Moriel is the recipient of two MacDowell Fellowships for Literature (2017 & 2020), a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship for Yiddish Cultural Studies (2018-2019), and holds an MFA in Poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars, where he was the recipient of a Donald Hall Scholarship for Poets (2021-2023).
Moriel has taught creative writing at University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; the University of Dayton in Dayton, OH; online through the Catapult Writing Program, and as guest faculty at the Miami Writers Institute.
Moriel is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Swarthmore College.
