Zoe Ballering
Zoe Ballering is the author of the story collection There Is Only Us (University of North Texas Press), which won the 2022 Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. Her stories are forthcoming or have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, Hobart, and Story. She is a 2025 Oregon Literary Fellow.
Her writing is informed by her work in many different worlds: as the program manager for a historic tall ship, the receptionist at a garbage dump, an olive oil saleswoman, a radio ad copywriter, and—currently—as the Senior Assistant Dean of Admission Communications at Reed College.
She lives in Portland, Oregon.