Carol Zoref
Part-time Faculty
cpz1@nyu.edu
619 - 1 Wash Pl
Office Hours
Monday 6:20-7:20
M.F.A., Fiction Writing, Sarah Lawrence College
B.A., Liberal Arts, Sarah Lawrence College
A part-time member of the Gallatin faculty since 2001, Carol Zoref teaches fiction writing in the Advanced Writing Program. She has been a full-time member of the Sarah Lawrence College faculty since 1998. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hall Farm Center for Arts, and In Our Own Write. Her novel Barren Island (New Issues, 2017) won the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction, the AWP Prize for the Novel, National Jewish Book Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Fiction, and was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.
Awards & Honors
2021
A part-time member of the Gallatin faculty since 2001, Carol Zoref teaches fiction writing in the Advanced Writing Program. She has been a full-time member of the Sarah Lawrence College faculty since 1998. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Hall Farm Center for Arts, and In Our Own Write. Her novel Barren Island (New Issues, 2017) won the Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction, the AWP Prize for the Novel, National Jewish Book Award, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Fiction, and it was longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction.
2018
Carol Zoref is the recipient of the 2018 Harold U. Ribalow Prize for Fiction for her novel Barren Island.
Teaching and Research Interests
fiction and essay writing; 19th- 20th- and 21st-century literature; photography and other visual narratives
Recent News
Professor Carol Zoref's novel Barren Island (New Issues, 2017) was named the winner of the 2018 Harold U. Ribalow/Hadassah Award for Fiction. Prior winners include Jonathan Safran Foer, Edith Perlman, and Nathan Englander. Zoref will be honored at an award ceremony on January 31, 2018.
Since its publication, Barren Island has been honored with a 2018 Goldberg Prize for Debut Fiction from the Jewish Book Council’s National Jewish Book Awards and included in the 2017 National Book Awards for Fiction Long List. The novel was selected by Paul Harding as the winner of the 2015 Associated Writing Programs Novel Award.
Courses
2023 Spring
The Short Story: A Workshop on Revising
2023 Fall
Reading and Writing the Short Story
2022 Spring
The Short Story: A Workshop on Revising
2022 Fall
Reading and Writing the Short Story
2021 Spring
The Short Story: A Workshop on Revising
2021 Fall
Reading and Writing the Short Story
2020 Fall
