Currently, a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, but a native to Texas and former inhabitant of the Bay Area, Zoe Tuck is a trans/queer poet. Her work appears in poetry anthologies Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics and By the Slice. Terror Matrix (2014), supported by Timeless, Infinite Light is Zoe’s first published book of poetry. Her current work in progress is Summer Arcana. Zoe is a co-editor for the poetry collective work, HOLD: a journal and has contributed work to DATABLEED zine, Fanzine, Dusie, textsound, and the Michigan Quarterly Review. She is active in the community of poetry with interests in queer sci-fi, trans-mythography, government skepticism, and ‘safe poetic exercise in S&M’. Zoe hosts in-home poetry readings in a series called But Also. Outside the realm of publication, Zoe has taught classes on Vampire Poetics and ghosts at the Bay Area Public School and takes part in experimental filmmaking.
‘when I was in the boy’s
choir there were lots of
jokes about castrati and
maybe I am stating the
obvious but you know it’s
not about lack, right?
Loan officers have taken
more from me than a surgeon
or prescribing physician ever will.’
Excerpt from Once Upon a Time by Zoe Tuck
Selected Works
- Once Upon a Time, DATABLEED
- Who Died, DATABLEED
- The Human Cultures of Texas, DATABLEED
- Excerpt from Summer Arcana, Fanzine
- From Rules for the direction of, Dusie
- from Rules of the Direction of Water 1, textsound
- from Rules of the Direction of Water 2, textsound
- from Rules of the Direction of Water 3, textsound
Bibliography
- Terror Matrix. Oakland, CA : Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014.
Link to Free pdf
Link to MHC LITS access
Link to Book Trailer
- Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics. Callicoon, N.Y. : Nightboat books, 2013.
Link to MHC LITS access
- By the Slice. Spooky Girlfriend Press (August 13, 2014)
Link to publisher’s site
Readings
Blog Posts
- On Escapism, Michigan Quarterly Review
- Creating Our Own Lexicon, Michigan Quarterly Review
- Oakland’s Vampire Poetics, Michigan Quarterly Review
Reviews & Interviews
- Writer Zoe Tuck Explores the ‘Terror Matrix’. East Bay Express
- REVIEW Terror Matrix by Zoe Tuck. The Volta
- Alexandra Naugthon’s SUMMER READS. <HTMLGIANT>
- Best of 2014: Best Poetry Books and Collections. Entropy
- ‘We Probably Need, Like, 10 Vidas’: Zoe Tuck and Axes for the Frozen Sea Inside Us. Poetry Foundation
- Interview with Zoe Tuck. Waves Breaking
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