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Zoë Bossiere

Zoë Bossiere (she/they) is a nonfiction writer and the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. She is the coeditor of The Best of Brevity (Rose Metal Press, 2020) and The Lyric Essay As Resistance: Truth from the Margins (Wayne State University Press, 2023). Bossiere’s debut memoir, Cactus Country: A Boyhood Memoir, is forthcoming from Abrams Books.

Luminous Gender Vessel

Fall 2023

Roleplay

By Zoë Bossiere

The Kenyon Review · “Roleplay” by Zoe Bossiere As an amateur fortune teller, Katie’s favorite after-school activity was predicting the future. Too young for tea leaves or tarot cards, instead […]