Zoe Shaw is a writer and editor based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. She has worked in communications and administration for nonprofits, publishers, academic departments, and consulting groups. She is working on some poems.

About

Publishing

Zoe is currently a quality assurance editor and occasional book reviewer. She was the managing editor of carte blanche literary magazine from 2019 to 2024 and the editorial mentor for the Quebec Writers’ Federation 2024 Fresh Pages Diversity Initiative. She has served on awards juries for the National Magazine Awards and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta.

She has followed courses as part of Toronto Metropolitan University’s Publishing program, including “Digital Publishing and Production” and “Copy and Stylistic Editing.”

Arts Administration

Zoe has previously worked in communications and administration at the Thomas More Institute, the Montreal International Poetry Prize, Poetry Matters, Véhicule Press, and various arts and publishing events. She has special interests in policy and procedure development, specifically toward the goals of transparency and anti-harassment measures.

She is a member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation and the English Language Arts Network.

Academia

Zoe holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English from McGill University. She has presented award-winning sections of her SSHRC-funded thesis, Memorializing Women: Imagining the Sapphic Monument in British Romantic Poetry, at academic conferences including the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

She has designed and led accredited university-level discussion courses at the Thomas More Institute, including “The Year Without a Summer: The Environments of British Romanticism.”