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Zoe Zolbrod is the author of the memoir The Telling (Curbside Splendor, 2016) and the novel Currency (Other Voices Books, 2010), which was a Friends of American Writers prize finalist. Her essays have appeared in Salon, Stir Journal, The Weeklings, The Manifest Station, The Nervous Breakdown, and The Rumpus, where she is now the Sunday co-editor. She gradated from Oberlin College and received an M.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Program for Writers. Born in Western Pennsylvania, she now lives in Evanston, IL, with her husband and two children.

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Time’s Up Billionaires: Why I’m Voting For Daniel Biss

On 1/27/18, I participated in Writers for Biss, an event to support Illinois gubernatorial candidate Daniel Biss, along with Martha Bayne, Julia Sweeney Blum, Christine Sneed, Rick Perlstein, and Claire Zulkey. This is what I read.

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I have two kids, a nine year old and a sixteen year old, and obviously they’re growing up in a very particular political moment. It’

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