Ruth Knafo Setton

Born in Morocco, Ruth Knafo Setton is the author of the novels The Road to Fez and Zigzag Girl—a finalist for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Standalone Book, finalist for the Next Generation Indie Books Award for Best Mystery Novel, Grand Prize winner of ScreenCraft's Most Cinematic Book Competition, and First Prize winner of the Daphne du Maurier Foundation’s Award for Best Mystery/Suspense Novel. An NEA fellow, she has studied magic with Teller, Jeff McBride, and Eugene Burger, and been sawed in half and in thirds, and escaped from a straitjacket. She has taught Creative Writing at Lehigh University and with Semester at Sea, and writes a monthly Substack newsletter exploring magic, myths, and mystery: www.ruthsetton.substack.com