Zoe Tuck is an American author and poet. She was born in Texas, moved to the Bay Area in 2008, and is now living in Massachusetts.
Career
Works Tuck has been featured on poets.org, Michigan Quarterly Review, and was published in the book Troubling the Line (2013), a collection of poetry published by Nightboat Books. In 2013, she performed her piece from Troubling the Line for RE@DS, a segment University of California, Berkeley's Art Museum, BAMPFA, L@TE series. She has also authored Terror Matrix (2014), and has an unpublished manuscript titled Summer Arcana (2014). She worked at Small Press Distribution for several years after moving into the Bay Area. She also co-curated Condensery Reading Series. She is currently working on co-curating for But Also house reading series. Tuck is also a co-editor of "HOLD: a journal", along with Tessa Micaela Landreau-Grasmuck and Cheena Marie Lo. Tuck is also an editor for the publishing group Timeless, Infinite Light.
Teaching She co-taught a class with novelist Laura Moriarty. The class was called Vampire Poetics and was held at the Bay Area Public School. She will also be teaching an upcoming class on ghosts with Zach Ozma.
Bibliography
Collections
Pussy Studies, Dispersed Holdings, 2026,
Bedroom Vowel, BUNNY / Fonograf Editions, 2023,
Chapbooks
The Book of Bella, DoubleCross Press, 2022 Vape Cloud of Unknowing, Belladonna* Collaborative, 2022 Soft Investigations, Daisy Mayhem, 2019 Terror Matrix, Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014
Selected essays YearTitleFirst PublishedRef.2024Writing the Wound: A Letter to Hélène CixousTuck, Zoe. "Writing the Wound: A Letter to Hélène Cixous". The Weird Sister Collection, edited by Marisa Crawford, The Feminist Press, 2024.https://feministpress.org/products/9781558613003-the-weird-sister-collection2023AfterwardTuck, Zoe. "Afterward". The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, Judy Grahn, Sinister Wisdom, 2023. https://www.zoetuck.com/publications-1/2023/11/6/i-have-an-afterward-in-the-new-edition-of-judy-grahns-the-highest-apple2022Notes on Female Visionary Poetry: Trans Women Poets Writing Themselves into ExistenceTuck, Zoe (July 2, 2022). "Notes on Female Visionary Poetry". Ayin Press.
References
External links HOLD: a journal Fanzine - Summer Arcana