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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 short fiction has appeared in print and online venues including Ecotone, Day One, The Southwest Review, The Utne Reader, and other publications and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Long-listed for the 2019 Northern California Independent Booksellers' Award for Fiction, her novel Paper is White is a 2019 Foreword Indies silver medalist and the winner of the 2019 Independent Publishers' Book Awards (IPPY) in LGBT+ Fiction.

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 at Oakland Technical High School, an equity program offering high school seniors from under-served communities with college admissions support.