Zoe Bossiere

Jul 26, 2024 | thecreativeindependent.com | Zoe Bossiere

When we were in grad school at Oregon State, you were working on a different memoir, one about your parents’ times in a circus. Can you talk about how you came to shift your attention to Cactus Country and how you know when to stop working on a project and start working on something else?

May 24, 2024 | citylights.com | Zoe Bossiere

"I felt Zoë Bossiere's Cactus Country in my whole body: the sun on my skin, the slap of bare feet on hard earth, the desire to climb paloverde trees and chase beetles and hide from javelinas and hop trains, but also the rage and violence of childhood–the liberation and the limits of youth.

Mar 31, 2024 | bookshop.org | Zoe Bossiere

(Author) FORMAT Pre-Order   Ships May 21, 2024 Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller A striking literary memoir of genderfluidity, class, masculinity, and the American Southwest that captures the author's experience coming of age in a Tucson, Arizona, trailer park. Newly arrived in the Sonoran Desert, eleven-year-old Zoë's world is one of giant beetles, thundering javelinas, and gnarled paloverde trees.

Feb 2, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Zoe Bossiere |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |

Bossiere’s hopeful, powerful life story also serves as a memorable study of gender and home. A memoir about gender, the Sonoran Desert, and how stories can save. When Bossiere’s family packed themselves into an Airstream and moved to Cactus Country, an RV park situated in the desolate landscape outside of Tucson, the author was an 11-year-old boy.

Aug 31, 2023 | kenyonreview.org | Zoe Bossiere |Gabrielle Calvocoressi |Melissa Faliveno |Rickey Fayne

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.