Zoe Dorado
Zoe Dorado is a FilAm writer from the Bay Area. She is the 2024 National Youth Poet Laureate of the Western U.S. and a winner of the San Francisco Foundation’s Nomadic Literary Award. Her work has been published in Poetry Magazine, The Poetry Review, The Offing, and We the Gathered Heat (Haymarket Books, 2024). She is a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and on the editorial team for The Fire Inside, a project initiated by people inside California women’s prisons in collaboration with former prisoners and advocates on the outside. She has previously been part of Youth Speaks SPOKES and the Brave New Voices Future Corps, and served as the inaugural Alameda County Youth Poet Laureate back in 2021. Zoe studies English and Politics at Pomona College.
