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. A graduate of Harvard Law School and Harvard College, he is a senior counsel for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and lives near Boston with his family.