Zoë Fay-Stindt is a queer, land-based poet and essayist. Raised by both the swamps of Pomouik and Lumbee lands in eastern Carolina and the Hérault river of Languedoc, France, they are a sixth-generation settler currently residing on unceded Cherokee territory (colonially known as Asheville, North Carolina). As a writer, teacher, and facilitator, their work orbits entanglement, queer ecologies, belonging, and what it means to be in relationship with a land settled by their ancestors. Their work has been Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominated, featured or forthcoming in places such as Ninth Letter, VIDA, Muzzle, Terrain, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Poet Lore, and gathered into a chapbook, Bird Body, winner of Cordella Press’ inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize.
Contributions to Humans & Nature Press:
- Pigs and the Politics of Disappearance in Iowa
