Maria Shriver and Zibby Owens on Their Next Chapters

Join us for a special conversation and signing at Zibby's Bookshop with owner Zibby Owens and the one-and-only Maria Shriver as they discuss their own next chapters in life, writing, publishing, and motherhood.

Maria Shriver is a mother and grandmother, an Emmy and Peabody Award–winning journalist and producer, a #1 New York Times bestselling author, and the former First Lady of California. She is also the founder of Shriver Media, whose flagship digital publication The Sunday Paper reaches millions every week in search of meaning, inspiration, and hope. As a leading global advocate for women’s health, Maria founded The Women’s Alzheimer’s Movement at Cleveland Clinic and is co-founder of the Cleveland Clinic Women’s Comprehensive Health and Research Center. She is also the co-founder of the brain health brand MOSH and the publisher of The Open Field at Penguin Random House. When she’s not thinking or writing, she can be found hanging with her kids and grandkids.

Zibby Owens is the bestselling author and editor of seven books including Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot, Blank: A Novel, Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, and On Being Jewish Now: Reflections from Authors and Advocates, which has spent 29 weeks on the USA Today bestseller list. Zibby has interviewed more than 2,000 authors on her award-winning podcast Totally Booked with Zibby and weekly TV show Totally Booked on JBS. In 2021 she founded Zibby Media with the launch of boutique publishing house Zibby Publishing and unique year-round hosted retreats and events for book lovers. In 2023, she opened indie bookstore Zibby's Bookshop in Santa Monica, CA. A frequent speaker (repped by UTA), moderator, and broadcast guest, Zibby, dubbed "NYC's Most Powerful Book-fluencer" (Vulture) is known for highlighting the book industry’s most anticipated new releases and emerging authors in "the Zibby-verse" (L.A. Times).