Zoe Trope is the pen name of Zoe Fisher. She was born in 1986 & graduated from high school in Oregon in 2003. That same year, HarperCollins published her high school memoir, Please Don't Kill the Freshman. Since then, she has written essays, short stories, and poetry. Her 2017 essay, "Libraries Are the Real Punk Rock" was one of the 15 most-read essays of the year at The Rumpus.
She graduated from Oberlin College in 2008 with a Bachelor's in Art History and completed her Master's degree in Library Science in 2010. Zoe is an instructional designer at a community college in Seattle, Washington and welcomes correspondence at ztrope at gmail dot com.