Tracy Zeman's first book, Empire, won the New Measure Poetry Prize from Free Verse Editions. Her poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly and other journals, and her essays and book reviews have been published in Kenyon Review, The Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review and others. Zeman has earned residencies from the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artist Residency, The Wild and Write On Door County. In fall 2022, she spent two weeks as an artist-in-residence in nonfiction on remote Isle Royale, a national park in Lake Superior.

She teaches writing at the University of Michigan and literature in U-M’s remote New England Literature Program. Originally from Illinois, Zeman currently lives outside Detroit, Michigan, with her husband, daughter, and dog, where she hikes and bird watches in all seasons.

You can write to her at tracy.zeman (at) gmail (dot) com.