Zoe Koplowitz

Zoe Koplowitz is the award-winning author of The Winning Spirit – Life Lessons Learned in Last Place. The book, hailed by critics as "consistently affecting…memorable…and uproarious", has been selected as one the top motivational books of the year in the Barnes and Noble "Books for a Better Life Award".

In a world that values FAST, Zoe is perpetually SLOW. In a world that demands FIRST, she gives new meaning to the word LAST. Zoe, a fifty-year-old native New Yorker, has successfully completed sixteen marathons, fourteen in New York, one in Boston, and one in London. In the process she has set four world records.

She is the first woman with Multiple Sclerosis to complete 16 consecutive marathons, all in last place. Her thirty-six hour, fifteen minute run has re-set a world record for the longest marathon in the history of women's running.

Zoe has been featured on the Rosie O'Donnell Show, Joan Rivers Show, Sally Jessy Raphael, the Today Show, CNN, ESPN, and many other national television and radio programs. She has presented motivational speeches from the shores of Oahu to the shores of her native New York. She also holds the distinction of being the only non-celebrity to be featured in the famous "Milk Mustache" advertisement.

Her marathons have become a metaphor for self-acceptance and personal achievement. Her transformational journey of the spirit has captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world, superseding the boundaries of race, class and economics.