Eric Giroux's debut novel, RING ON DELI, won the National Indie Excellence Award for Comedy and a Readers' Favorite award. His second novel, ZODIAC PETS, won an NYC Big Book Award and was a finalist for the Samuel Richardson Prize, a National Indie Excellence Award, and a Foreword INDIES award. His fiction writing has received support from Vermont Studio Center and Millay Arts. He lives near Boston with his family and works for the SEC (the regulator, not the football conference).