Zibby Owens

Zibby performed on stage at Joe’s Pub in our May 2024 edition of Seriously Entertaining, speaking on the evening’s theme, “The Chance Won’t Come Again.”

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 two anthologies. A frequent contributor to Good Morning America and other outlets, she has been called “NYC’s Most Powerful Book-fluencer” (Vulture).
Zibby is the creator and host of the award-winning, daily podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books, co-founder and CEO of publishing house Zibby Books, owner of Zibby’s Bookshop, an independent bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, and creator of “the Zibby-verse” (L.A. Times) community of book lovers for which she offers retreats, classes, special events, a book club, a writing group, and more under the Zibby Media umbrella.

A graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School, Zibby currently lives in New York with her four children ages 9 to 16 and her husband Kyle Owens, co-president and founder of Morning Moon Productions.