Zoë Fay-Stindt is a queer, land-based poet and essayist. Raised by both the swamps of eastern Carolina and the Hérault river of Languedoc, France, they are a sixth generation settler currently residing on unceded Cherokee lands in what is colonially known as Asheville, North Carolina. Their work has been Pushcart, Best of the Net, and Best New Poets nominated, featured or forthcoming in places such as Southern Humanities, Ninth Letter, VIDA, Muzzle, Terrain, and Poet Lore, and gathered into a chapbook, Bird Body, winner of Cordella Press’ inaugural Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize. They are an aluma of or have received support from the Santa Fe Art Institute, Tin House, Orion, Sundress Academy of the Arts, the Science Museum of Minnesota, Black Lawrence Press, and others, and currently serve as the Spiritual Ecology Study Club facilitator at advaya as well as the 2024 - 25 fellow for the Hellbender Gathering of Poets. They are a student of belonging and embodied relationship to land who believes in slowness, reciprocal relationship with place and people, and queer, decolonized, kincentric futures.