They are a three time finalist in the Kansas City Poetry Slam, a participant in the 2022-23 KC Grand Slam, and have been featured at Poetic Underground KC twice.
They are published by On-the-High Literary Journal and KC Poetry Calendar and regularly pour themself out to perfect strangers at open mics. When they’re not, they’re writing poetry like solving a puzzle. Just one last line to crack the code!
He writes both fact and fiction about his queer experience, religious upbringing, trauma, polyamory, mental illness, disability, neurodivergence, and making sense of it all.
They say that the pen
Is mightier than the sword
The tongue is sharpest
So cut your teeth on some of Zoë’s finest pieces!
If you learn something or just appreciate their writing, you can tip them at cash.app/$zoeadunnin or paypal.me/zoeadunning.