Howdy,

Zoe Grace Marquedant (she/her/hers) is a queer writer. She earned her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence and her M.F.A. from Columbia University.

She has participated in artist residencies at Farm Studio and Dogo Residenz für Neue Kunst. She was also a Research Ecologies & Archival Development fellow at the School of the Commons. In 2026, she will act as the artist-in-residence at BGR in Štúrovo, Slovakia.

Her manuscript, "Making a Living," made the Nan Shepherd Prize Longlist 2024.

She also writes the "Don't You Want Me, Baby?" column over at Talk Vomit.

Essays

"Were We the Last People on Earth," Cry Lounge, March 2024.

"Outback Special," Digest Magazine, January 2024.

"The Hiker," Coffin Bell, January 2022.

"The Memory of an Elephant," Pareidolia Literary, November 2021.

"Flesh House," Bonemilk Anthology, November 2021.

"Perishables," The Dirty Spoon, November 2021.

"Live Bait," Litro Magazine, September 2021.

"Is This the Place," Erato, July 2021.

"Protector of the Realm," Warning Lines, July 2021.

"The Grounds," Wild Word, June 2021.

"Don't Speak," School of the Commons, January 2021.

"Don't Go Back to Rockville," Schuylkill Valley Journal, December 2020.

"Tiger, Tiger Dimming Light," HOX Magazine, October 2020.

"Studying Degradation in Disaster," Analog Cookbook, October 2020.

"Somebody," School of the Commons, July 2020.

"Shotgun," Talk Vomit, November 2020.

Genreless / Less Genre

"October in 715 Endings," Genrepunk, July 2024.

"Best By Date," Scraps, February 2024.

"Venmo Receipts That Read Like A Snowglobe Of Previous Existence," The Quarantine Review, December 2021.

"Treatise on the Existence of Lesbian Green," Alien Magazine, August 2021.

"excerpts from the stanford university psychiatry lecture on 'the value of girlfriends' (chain email) I was forwarded by my mother," My Love Anthology, March 2021.

Poetry

"tanka for driving through a heatwave," Scud, June 2024.

"Tanka for Finger Food at Funerals," Exist Otherwise, May 2024.

"Tanka for Prospectors," Talking About Strawberries All of the Time, April 2024.

"Tanka(s) for Too Many Mascots," WAS, December 2021.

"Tanka for Delivery Men," Versification, November 2021.

"Tanka for Overshot Exists," Olney Magazine, October 2021.

"Tanka(s) from the Rubble of Westlake Mall," Mall Rats Anthology, July 2021.

"B+" & "Toxicity," Cool Rock Repository, July 2021.

Reviews

"THE MUSEUM OF WHALES YOU WILL NEVER SEE," Furious Beautiful Review of Books, April 2023.

"For the Birds," Capsule Stories, November 2021.

"A BRIEF HISTORY OF METEORITE FALLS," Furious Beautiful Review of Books, July 2021.

R.E.A.D. Fellowship Series on Silence

"Silence as Complaint," School of Commons, February 2020.

"Silence as Nature," School of Commons, February 2020.

"Silence as Waiting," School of Commons, December 2020.

"Silence as Surrounding," School of Commons, November 2020.

"Silence as Photography," School of Commons, November 2020.

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Reach out to zoegracemarquedant@gmail.com