Stav Ziv is a journalist based in New York City whose work has appeared in The Forward, Dance Magazine, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Newsweek, Newsday, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has covered arts and culture, history, identity, women and gender, careers and work, news, and health and science.
Stav won a 2022 Society for Features Journalism award in the Arts & Entertainment Features category for her feature about a Bay Area artist’s efforts to memorialize homes lost to California wildfires. Stav also won the American Jewish Press Association’s Simon Rockower Award for Excellence in Writing about Seniors in 2024 for her profile of Ruth Messinger’s second bat mitzvah at age 83 and the Award for Excellence in Arts and Criticism News and Features—Reporting in 2020 for a feature on the rise of Jewish a cappella videos, receiving an honorable mention in 2022 in the Award for General Excellence — Best Freelancer category. She won the Newswomen's Club of New York's Martha Coman Front Page Award for Best New Journalist in 2016.
Stav earned a B.A. in history with a minor in dance at Stanford University, where she wrote an honors thesis about U.S.-Soviet ballet tours as tools of Cold War cultural exchange and helped found the Stanford Arts Review. She holds an M.S. from Columbia Journalism School, where she won the James A. Wechsler Award for Local Reporting. She is an alum of the FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics) journalism program, serving on the organization’s board of directors.
She is currently a contributors editor at CNBC Make It, working with external writers across verticals — life, work, success, and money — from pitch or assignment to publication. She was previously the deputy editor at The Muse, where she oversaw coverage of careers and work, and a staff writer at Newsweek.
In addition to being a longtime word nerd and bookworm, Stav is passionate about dance—doing it, watching it, discussing it, introducing people to it, and writing about it. She prefers sunshine and tolerates winters grudgingly.