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About Hilary

Photo credit: Mo Saito.

Hilary Zaid has been a Tennessee Williams Scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, a James D Houston Fellow at the Squaw Valley Community of Writers and two-time attendee of Tin House Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared in print and online venues including Mother Jones, Ecotone, Day One, The Southwest Review, and The Utne Reader. Long-listed for the 2019 Northern California Independent Booksellers' Award for Fiction, her novel Paper is White is a 2018 Foreword Indies silver medalist and the winner of the 2018 Independent Publishers' Book Awards (IPPY) in LGBT+ Fiction. Her novel Forget I Told You This,  the inaugural winner of the Barbara DiBernard Award, is coming out on September 1, 2023.

Hilary has mentored aspiring writers through AWP's Writer-to-Writer Mentor program, the Golden Crown Literary Society and as a volunteer mentor and mentor-coordinator of the College Essay Mentors in the Oakland Unified School District, an equity program offering high school seniors from under-served communities with college admissions support.