Zoe Boyer was raised on the shore of Lake Michigan. She completed her MA in creative writing among the ponderosas in northern Arizona, and now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Poetry South, RockPaperPoem, West Trade Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Penn Review, Terrain.org, and Pleiades, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net.