Santa Fe Art Institute

Zoë Fay-Stindt

Zoë Fay-Stindt is a queer, bicontinental poet with roots in both the French and American south. Their work has been Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominated, featured or forthcoming in places such as Southern Humanities, Ninth Letter, EcoTheo, VIDA, Muzzle, RHINO, Terrain, and Poet Lore, and gathered into a chapbook, Bird Body, winner of Cordella Press’ inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. The recent recipient of an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment from Iowa State University, they have also received funding and support from the Pearl Hogrefe Fellowship, Sundress Academy for the Arts, the Alexander Von Humbolt prize, Iowa Lakeside Laboratory, and others. Zoë is a student and teacher of belonging and embodied relationship to land who writes towards queer, kincentric futures. They are currently based between Asheville, North Carolina and Montpeyroux, France.