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Zoë Bossiere
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Writer | Managing Editor at brevitymag.com | CACTUS COUNTRY: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR out now from Abrams Books | Indies Introduce & Indie NEXT | rep’d by @frecklywench.bsky.social | they/she 🏳️‍⚧️🏜 | https://linktr.ee/zoebossiere | zoebossiere.com
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This evening at @skylightbooks.bsky.social, join us for a special Night of Non(Binary)Fiction event! Featuring 3 recently released trans memoirs: my CACTUS COUNTRY, Neesha Powell-Ingabire's COME BY HERE, & Jackie Domenus's NO OFFENSE! Tonight at Skylight Books 7pm, 1818 North Vermont Ave 🤍
At skylight: A night of non(binary)fiction! Friday March 28th, featuring Zoë Bossiere, Neesha Powells-Ingabire, and Jackie Domenus
March 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Tonight, tonight! Don't sleep on Brevity's offsite reading, ✨ The Future is Transgender ✨ 5-7pm at KISO DTLA (107 4th St) feat. contributors from our special issue. brevitymag.com/category/iss...
Flyer in a 1980s/futuristic style. In the middle triangle the words "The Future is Transgender, hosted by KISO DTLA" Featuring the nonfiction stylings of Marisa "Mac" Crane, KB Brookins, Rick's Clifton, Nic Anstett, Scott Nelson, Melissa Faliveno, and Krys Malcolm Belc.
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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AWP writers! Join us for this incredible queer & trans memoir offsite event on the theme of "existence as resistance" TONIGHT at Liberation Coffee House in DTLA! Feat. Jackie Domenus, KB Brookins, Krys Malcolm Belc, and Freda Epum ☺️ Register for the event (free!) here: partiful.com/e/pHRGJ7xAd9...
Existence as resistance: queer and trans memoir offsite AWP event featuring Krys Malcolm Belc, Zoë Bossiere, KB Brookins, Jackie Domenus, and Freda Epum. March 26th at 7pm, Liberation Coffee House at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, 6725 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles CA
March 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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My next NEA project proposal:
A diorama of squirrels dressed in 1700s garb at Independence Hall from that King of the Hill episode where Peggy and Dale enter a taxidermy contest
February 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Today & Tomorrow! I'm at the Miami Book Fair chatting with the incredible Nico Lang (American Teenager) on "Portraits of Life in a Gendered Body" Sat at 1pm, then Sun at 11am catch "Coming of Age & Coming Out" with
@emmaceisenberg.bsky.social & August Thompson!
November 23, 2024 at 1:41 PM
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This is the Airstream trailer I grew up in, the same one featured on the cover of my debut memoir, CACTUS COUNTRY, out now from Abrams Books. Thank you to everyone who has championed this book in ways big and small. I hope my story continues to reach the readers who need it most 🏜️🏳️‍⚧️
November 8, 2024 at 3:21 PM
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My debut, CACTUS COUNTRY: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR, is available for preorder at a 50% discount right now on the
Abrams website! Preorders are so important for a debut. If you were thinking of picking one up, now might be the best time! Link below: shorturl.at/hlnP8
Cover of Cactus Country, featuring a collage image of myself at 11 years old, standing in the desert surrounded by prickly pear cactus looking back at the camera. Two saguaro cactuses stand tall on either side of this image with an Airstream trailer beneath. Above this image is a snippet of the sky, and two animals—a palo verde beetle and a javelina, also make an appearance. The book is quoted as "Enthralling, fearless, viscerally intelligent, and deeply moving" by Justin St. Germain.
December 5, 2023 at 7:14 PM
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XLV. but wen I was a chylde / I was so olde / inn my dreems / a grl/ ther bieng no pardon / from the reel / its form a dreem / a grl / the feeld is an aeffekt yes / but wut mattres more / than its fakt/ faktual the folde / inn its fallow / & bent daye/ mattrynge / how wee call a thynge / & wut / did wee make then / bieng so tall / the daye bieng olde / sum fakts / stunnynge the aire Feeld by Jos Charles
August 13, 2023 at 2:19 AM
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My book has a cover!! CACTUS COUNTRY: A BOYHOOD MEMOIR, featuring 11-year-old me, the Airstream I grew up in, and bonus javelina + paloverde beetle. Forthcoming May 24, 2024 from Abrams Books! Preorders available now: https://store.abramsbooks.com/products/cactus-country
Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir by Zoë Bossiere
August 12, 2023 at 9:16 PM
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CNF Teachers! As you're crafting your Fall workshop syllabi, consider THE LYRIC ESSAY AS RESISTANCE: TRUTH FROM THE MARGINS, a new anthology from WSUP celebrating the lyric essay as a subversive genre + a potent mode of expression for marginalized voices. Exam copies available! https://rb.gy/qqde9
The Lyric Essay as Resistance: Truth from the Margins. Edited by Zoë Bossiere and Erica Trabold. From Wayne State University Press.
August 7, 2023 at 3:41 PM
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Absolutely thrilled to announce my debut memoir, CACTUS COUNTRY 🌵🏜 is going to be published by @ABRAMSbooks!! Huge thanks to my amazing agent, @frecklywench & Abrams editor @_abbymuller, & to the many writers, editors, teachers & friends who have supported me along the way ✨
Managing editor of Brevity and coeditor of The Lyric Essay as Resistance Zoë Bossiere’s CACTUS COUNTRY, about growing up genderfluid in a trailer park outside of Tucson, Arizona, capturing the violence and poignancy of trans boyhood set against the backdrop of the Sonoran Desert, and the fraught and tender beginnings of life as a queer adult and writer, to Abby Muller at Abrams, at auction, by Maggie Cooper at Aevitas Creative Management.
August 2, 2023 at 5:54 PM