Zoe Disigny

Zoe Disigny—a pen name for Betty Disney—is passionate about art, writing, and travel. She holds an MA in Art History and was an art history professor at Cypress College in California for 25 years. She also lectured for the Norton Simon Museum of Art and, more recently, the Road Scholar Virtual Lecture Series. Zoe spent several summers teaching classes in Europe, leading tours, and eventually establishing a tour-guiding business in Paris. Based on her tour-guiding experiences, she published her first novel, The Art of Traveling Strangers, in 2022. In 2023, her book received an Indy Book Finalist Award and a Pencraft Award for literary excellence. Currently, Zoe is writing a sequel to her first novel, a quarterly newsletter, "For Lovers of Art and Travelers at Heart," and articles for Art in Fiction, Artsy Traveler, and TheCollector. Zoe lives in California but recently bought a two-hundred-year-old village house in Southern France—a dream she has had since taking her first French class at fourteen.