Zoe Dickinson’s poetry is rooted in British Columbia’s Pacific coastline, with a focus on local ecology and human relationships with nature. She is a manager at Russell Books, one of Canada’s largest used, antiquarian, and new bookstores. Between 2020-2023, she was the Artistic Director of Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series, where she continues to volunteer as a board member. Zoe has a B.A. in Classics and Liberal Arts from Concordia University, and an MLIS from Dalhousie.


She has published two award-winning chapbooks: Public Transit (Leaf Press, 2015) and intertidal: poems from the littoral zone (Raven Chapbooks, 2022). Her work has also appeared in anthologies including Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees (2022), and literary journals such as Existere, Prairie Fire, and Contemporary Verse 2. Her first full-length poetry collection is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2026.


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