Zoe Tuck

Zoe Tuck
Born
Texas, USA
EducationMA, University of Massachusetts Amherst
OccupationPoet
Writing career
LanguageEnglish
Notable works
  • Pussy Studies (2026)
  • Bedroom Vowel (2023)

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 She has also authored Terror Matrix (2014), and has an unpublished manuscript titled Summer Arcana (2014).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, ISBN 979-8-9867990-4-9

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

Year Title First Published Ref.
2024 Writing the Wound: A Letter to Hélène Cixous Tuck, Zoe. "Writing the Wound: A Letter to Hélène Cixous". The Weird Sister Collection, edited by Marisa Crawford, The Feminist Press, 2024.
2023 Afterward Tuck, Zoe. "Afterward". The Highest Apple: Sappho and the Lesbian Poetic Tradition, Judy Grahn, Sinister Wisdom, 2023.
2022 Notes on Female Visionary Poetry: Trans Women Poets Writing Themselves into Existence Tuck, Zoe (July 2, 2022). "Notes on Female Visionary Poetry". Ayin Press.


References

  1. ↑ "Zoe Tuck". Michigan Quarterly Review. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  2. ↑ thepoetryproject (2018-01-26). "David Buuck & Zoe Tuck". David Buuck & Zoe Tuck. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  3. ↑ "Zoe Tuck". The Poetry Project. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
  4. ↑ "Lineup for Spring 2013 L@TE Season Unveiled". BAMPFA. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  5. ↑ "Zoe Tuck". Timeless, Infinite Light. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  6. ↑ Sara Wintz (2018-03-18). "'We Probably Need, Like, 10 Vidas': Zoe Tuck and Axes for the Frozen Sea Inside Us". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  7. ↑ "About". HOLD. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  8. ↑ "About". Timeless, Infinite Light. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  9. ↑ "Zoe Tuck - The Poetry Project". The Poetry Project. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  10. ↑ https://feministpress.org/products/9781558613003-the-weird-sister-collection
  11. ↑ https://www.zoetuck.com/publications-1/2023/11/6/i-have-an-afterward-in-the-new-edition-of-judy-grahns-the-highest-apple