Zoe Boyer was born and raised on the western shore of Lake Michigan. After retiring from acrobatics, she left the Midwest for the Southwest, where she completed her MA in creative writing at Prescott College and earned eleven James & Judith Walsh Awards for her poetry and essays. She now lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her writing is inspired by the nature of the regions she's called home, and explores the intersection between ecology and personal narrative. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Pleiades, Five Points, Bellevue Literary Review, Terrain.org, The Penn Review, Radar Poetry, Grain Magazine, Little Patuxent Review, and Tar River, among others. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a Best of the Net finalist, a Terrain.org 15th Annual Poetry Contest semifinalist, a 2026 Coniston Prize finalist, and the 2025 RockPaperPoem Poetry Prize Grand Prize Winner.