Zoe Boyer was born and raised in Evanston, Illinois on the western shore of Lake Michigan. The lake's unique flora and mercurial waters inspired her love of writing rooted in nature. After retiring from acrobatics, Zoe left the Midwest for the Southwest where she completed her MA in creative writing at Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona, and earned eleven James & Judith Walsh Awards for her poetry and essays. She now lives in the forest in a converted wood shop in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Her writing has appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Poetry South, Kelp Journal, Plainsongs, About Place, West Trade Review, Little Patuxent Review, The Penn Review, and Pleiades, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is a 2024 RockPaperPoem Poetry Prize finalist, and a semifinalist in the 15th Annual Terrain.org Poetry Contest.