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Published Work

[And Time Erodes Like Thunder] is Zoë's first book of poetry published with Assure Press.

"CIRS (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome) & other environmentally created disabilities" and "all i know of repetition is medicine" in Vol 10 of Death Rattle/Oroboro.

 

"Unit 731: 1931-1945" in Issue 20 of Saranac Review.

"death count of the ghost doctor" in Issue 50 of Blue Mesa Review.

"Questions I Ask the Night Sky" and "In My Dreams I Am A Carnivorous Plant" in Issue 9 of Pile Press (print).

"Writing Into Dystopia" a resident feature on The Seventh Wave's bulletin, Well-Crafted. This feature expands on a poem in progress.

"8 Steps to Survive a Pandemic" in In Between Spaces, an anthology by disabled writers published with Stillhouse Press.

"ode to red but not in anger" and "ode to red but not in hope" in Issue #23 of Wild Roof Journal. 

"what i wish i could say at my best friend's casket" published in the Fall 2021 edition of Bridge: The Bluffington University Literary Journal.

"Recipe After Ocean Vuong" published in the Spring 2021 volume of The Vital Sparks. 

"I wake with tears longer than his hair" in Everything in Between: an OSLAM chapbook.

"Access Denied" Broccoli Magazine, Issue 11

 

"Inadequate Facilities Unsafe, Inaccessible for Disabled Studies" The Oberlin Review, April 19, 2019

"Let's Talk Accessibility" The Oberlin Review, February 21, 2020 

"Universal Pass Represents Only Humane Option" The Oberlin Review, April 4, 2020

"College Neglects Disabled Students As Mold Problem Goes Unaddressed" The Oberlin Review, July 2, 2021

Awards and Honors 

 

"tongue/暴力" was chosen as a runner up for American Literary Review's 2024 Poetry Award

Winner of OSLAM's 2019 Grand Slam at Oberlin College 

Workshops

"Speculative Poetry and Imagining" for The Practice of Writing class at Oberlin College, July 2021

Various generative, editing, and performance workshops with OSLAM, August 2019-June 2021

Editing and Other Writing Experience

Narrative Shifts Digital Residency with The Seventh Wave June-July 2024

Attended the 2023 Desert Nights, Rising Stars Conference

 

Writing Associate at the Oberlin College Writing Center January 2021-December 2022

Judge and Editor at The Writer's Workout July-October 2021

Team Officer with OSLAM, Oberlin's Slam Poetry Team August 2019-June 2021

Press

Review by Jessica Drake Thomas "This Week, I Read Zoë Luh: [and time erodes like thunder]. "This book is a moving portrait of a woman who has walked through the fire and come out on the other side, still whole."

[And Time Erodes Like Thunder] featured in [clmp]'s "A Reading List for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month 2021"

[And Time Erodes Like Thunder] featured in [clmp]'s "A Reading List for Disability Pride Month 2022"

“In Between Spaces is filled with unbridled vulnerability, searing empathy, and a sense of far-reaching hope. But more than anything, this is an anthology pierced through with beauty. I was left in tears of sadness and hope."
–Tod Goldberg, New York Times bestselling author of Gangsterland, Gangster Nation, and The Low Desert: Gangster Stories

Review by the Manhattan Book Project. "If you enjoyed other popular books by disabled authors like Disability Visibility edited by Alice Wong, Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig, or The Collected Schizophrenias by Esme Weijun Wang, or if you’re simply looking to diversify your TBR list, then this is the anthology for you."

"Obies Write For Themselves, On Their Own Time" by Juanita Alabi in The Oberlin Review.

Readings and Performances 

2019 Grand Slam at Oberlin College, November 2019

2018 Grand Slam at Oberlin College, December 2018

 

Love Slam at Oberlin College, February 2019

Open for Kai Davis at Oberlin College, March 2020

Open for Ariana Brown at Oberlin College, Fall 2019

Open for Annika Izora at Oberlin College, Fall 2018

Open for Alison Kronstadt at Oberlin College, Fall 2018

WOBC Radio Station Reading, December 2018

OT Circus' Poetry Night, April 2023

Virtual Reading with Assure Press, April 2021

Fundraiser & Reading for Palestine with Kundiman Southwest, August 2024

Blue Mesa Review Issue 50 launch party, December 2024

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Zoë Luh is a poet and disability doula working towards collective liberation. They believe in poetry as a tool for healing, collective liberation, and reclaiming bodily autonomy.

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