Zibby Owens is the author of Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, and children’s book Princess Charming, and the editor of three anthologies: On Being Jewish Now, Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids, and Moms Don’t Have Time To: A Quarantine Anthology. Her next novel Overheard is forthcoming.
A frequent contributor to Good Morning America and Kate Couric Media, she has contributed to Vogue, Oprah Daily, and other outlets, and has appeared on CNN, CBS This Morning, and many others. Vulture called her “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” (Vulture).
Zibby is the CEO and Founder of Zibby Media, dubbed “the Zibby-verse” by the L.A. Times, which includes the award-winning, daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, the boutique publishing house Zibby Books, Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, Zibby’s Book Club, and Zibby Retreats, events for book lovers.
A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby currently lives in New York with her four children ages 9 to 17 and her husband Kyle Owens, co-president and founder of Morning Moon Productions.
Follow her on Instagram @zibbyowens and Substack where she tells it like it is.
