Zoë Carpenter is a writer and editor from Oregon. She has reported all over the United States and in South America for Rolling Stone, The Nation, Guernica, and other publications. She is a recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism and has been a finalist for the Livingston Awards, the Mirror Awards, and the National Awards for Education Reporting. She has received fellowships and grants from the Pulitzer Center, the Catwalk Art Institute, PLAYA, and Yaddo.
She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan, where she won several Hopwood Awards and was a postgraduate Zell Fellow. Prior to that she was an editor at The Nation, where she worked on reported features, investigations, special issues, and opinion pieces for print and online. Currently she teaches for the Writers in the Schools program with Literary Arts in Portland.