Zoë Bird lives in Minneapolis, where she writes and performs with the Northside Writers Group at Homewood Studios. Her poems have appeared in numerous art installations, anthologies and publications including The Harwood Anthology: Looking Back to Place (Old School Books, 2008); Runes; Central Avenue Poetry Magazine and Sin Fronteras; and she was the winner of a College of Santa Fe (now the Santa Fe Institute of Art and Design) Glyph Award in poetry in 2005. Before returning to Minnesota in 2010, she performed widely in the Southwestern U.S., sometimes with the trio Fur Stethoscope; taught creative writing in the Documentary Studies Certificate Program at the College of Santa Fe; served on the board of PEN New Mexico; and co-hosted the Open Poetry series and Poets Against the War readings in Santa Fe for five and seven years, respectively. Zoë is the director of Alzheimer’s Poetry Project Minnesota and a professional arts and aging mentor with ArtSage. She has published three chapbooks: The Buried Flower (2002), Shedding Lions (2007) and Victrola (2009). She recently completed her first full-length poetry collection, Poultice for a Wooden Leg.

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