Zoë Carpenter is a journalist and fiction writer from Oregon. Her writing has been published in Rolling Stone, The Nation, Guernica, Narratively, and elsewhere. A recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, she has also received grants and fellowships from the Pulitzer Center, the Catwalk Art Institute, PLAYA, and Yaddo. She has an MFA from the University of Michigan, where she was a postgraduate Zell Fellow. Prior to that she was an editor at The Nation, where she worked on reported features, investigations, and opinion pieces for print and online.