Zibby Owens is an author, publisher, award-winning podcaster, CEO, bookstore owner, and mom of four. Creator and host of the award-winning, daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, Zibby is also the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, dubbed “the Zibby-verse” by the L.A. Times. It includes a publishing house, magazine, podcast network, retreats, classes, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA. A regular contributor to “Good Morning America” and other outlets, she loves recommending books as “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” (Vulture).

A writer herself, Zibby has published a memoir, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, a children’s book Princess Charming, two anthologies, and a zillion essays. Her debut novel Blank comes out in March 2024. A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby currently lives in New York with her husband, Kyle Owens of Morning Moon Productions, and four children ages 8 to 16.

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Sherri Puzey is a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Virginia Tech with a BA in international relations. She is the marketing director at Zibby Books, a contributing editor at Zibby Mag, and a buyer at Zibby’s Bookshop. She currently lives in Virginia with her husband and daughters. 

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Caroline's favorite books:

- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston - The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy 

Diana
Tramontano grew up
in Greenwich, Connecticut. She attended the College of William and Mary,
earning a bachelor’s degree in marketing with a minor in psychology. While she
dedicated numerous hours as a member of the Division I swim team, she also
pursued her academics and internships with the same rigor and passion. During
her summers, she studied Italian culture and language in Florence and gained
work experience at William Morris Endeavor and Lead Edge Capital.

A writer, editor, and storyteller with over 18 years talent management experience, Elizabeth Ziemska is the author of MANDELBROT THE MAGNIFICENT (Tor/Macmillan), which The Washington Post called “a gut punch of a novella.” Her short fiction has received a Pushcart Prize, a main selection in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, and a Shirley Jackson Award nomination, among others.A screenplay she adapted from one of her short stories that became a Semifinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship is currently in development with Wild Mouse Productions (“Cracow Monsters,” Netflix March 2022).During her ten-year career as a book agent, which began in the William Morris Agency mailroom, she worked with such distinguished clients as the Stanford University Professor of Neurological Sciences Robert Sapolsky (Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers), and the Emory University Professor of Primate Behavior Frans de Waal (The Ape and the Sushi Master). Her area of expertise is editing, clarifying, shaping, and transforming the work of academic and specialized authors into prose accessible to the general reader.
After more than a decade in New York, she returned to her native Los Angeles and began working in the film and television industry. Using the skills she honed as a publishing agent, she was able to shape, nurture, and develop the careers of a vibrant list of screenwriters. Some of her clients include Semi Chellas (Mad Men), Jeff Stockwell (“A Wrinkle in Time”), and Markus & McFeely (Avengers: Endgame).After almost two decades as a literary agent, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has participated in several writing workshops, including SLS St. Petersburg, The Community of Writers, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She has edited and provided feedback on numerous novels, memoirs, short stories, and screenplays. Her own award-winning fiction and journalistic pieces have appeared in such publications as Tin House, Nimrod International Journal, Tordotcom, and Edible LA.