Zibby Owens

Zibby Owens is an author, publisher, 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 (11+ million downloads; 1,600+ episodes!), Zibby is also the founder and CEO of Zibby Media, dubbed “the Zibby-verse” by the L.A. Times. It includes a book publishing house, Webby-award winning literary magazine, podcast network, bookish 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). Every venture is designed to connect readers to books and each other and to build community around the thing she loves the most: books.

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.

On her Instagram, Zibby shares what it's like to do ALL of this. It's not always easy or glamorous, and she doesn't pretend it is. Her warm, down-to-earth, vulnerable, and honest posts show what it's really like to be a working mom, and her followers connect profoundly with her stories and messages.