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About Zoe Bossiere

As a podcast host for the New Book Network’s New Books in Literature channel, I interview many emerging writers about their upcoming nonfiction debuts. The goal of my channel is to reserve a space on the podcast for books by new writers, especially women, writers of color, queer-identifying writers, writers with disabilities, and other voices who need more attention called to the great work they do. My waitlist of authors is usually somewhat long, but if you or someone you know has a debut book of nonfiction (upcoming or published within the last 2 years) that would make a good candidate for an episode, send me a message. **Note that due to the number of books currently on my list, I am unable to consider self-published books for interviews at this time.** Contact me via my website, zoebossiere.com, or on Twitter @zoebossiere

Zoë Bossiere is a doctoral candidate at Ohio University, where she studies and teaches creative writing and rhetoric & composition. She is the managing editor of Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction, and the co-editor of its anthology, The Best of Brevity (Rose Metal Press, 2020).

NBN Episodes hosted by Zoe:

Literature February 4, 2022

The Sum of Trifles

Julia Ridley Smith

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
We all live surrounded by objects: some practical, some personal, some handed down from family generations past. But though we interact with material things every day, we don’t often stop …
Literature July 5, 2021

The Natural Mother of the Child

A Memoir of Nonbinary Parenthood

Krys Malcolm Belc

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
This year, transgender liberation is at the forefront of Pride Month discourse, with a staggering number of conservative, religious, and gender critical-backed bills challenging trans people’s rights to use public …
Literature May 27, 2021

Dog Flowers

A Memoir

Danielle Geller

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Not long ago, the only resource for uncovering our familial pasts was to consult libraries and archives, combing old newspapers for birth announcements and obituaries. These days, many people are …
Literature April 16, 2021

An Indian Among Los Indígenas

Ursula Pike

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
The western travel narrative genre has a history long tied to voyeurism and conquest. A way to see the world—and its many unique people and places—through the eyes of mostly …
Literature March 30, 2021

Lightning Flowers

My Journey to Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life

Katherine E. Standefer

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
As the push for a Universal Healthcare system in the United States becomes more and more popular among the American people, we’re beginning to have more public conversations about access …
Literature December 30, 2020

Anything Will Be Easy After This

A Western Identity Crisis

Bethany Maile

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
There is something quintessentially American about the idea of the west. Though the time of western expansion has long since passed, stories about cowboys on horses and pioneers panning for …
Literature November 13, 2020

Mobile Home

A Memoir in Essays

Megan Harlan

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Home is the place many of us have spent our days for the last eight months. During the pandemic, our homes have become our workplaces, our classrooms, and our social …
Literature August 14, 2020

Tomboyland

Essays

Melissa Faliveno

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Writers often evoke the famous que sais-je (“What do I know?”) of Michel de Montaigne, father of the literary essay. Montaigne was known for his deeply exploratory writing about the …
Literature August 10, 2020

On Our Way Home from the Revolution

Reflections on Ukraine

Sonya Bilocerkowycz

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
It’s been a difficult year in America. From plague, to protests, to politics, there have never been so many lives at stake, nor so many questions about the future of …
Literary Studies February 24, 2020

Quite Mad

An American Pharma Memoir

Sarah Fawn Montgomery

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
If you live in America, chances are good you’ve heard the term “mental health crisis” bandied about in the media. While true that anxiety, depression, and other mood disorders seem …
Literature November 7, 2019

The Longer We Were There

A Memoir of a Part-Time Solider

Steven Moore

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Popular public conception of war has a long and problematic history, with its origins in ancient texts like The Art of War to bestselling books like Tim O’Brien’s The Things …
Literature July 10, 2019

Mother Winter

A Memoir

Sophia Shalmiyev

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
The story of where we come from is such an important aspect of our personal sense of self, the forefront of many conversations about national identity, community, and belonging. In …
Literature June 21, 2019

I Am Yours

A Shared Memoir

Reema Zaman

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Since its inception in 2017, the viral #MeToo movement has called more cultural attention to abusive behavior, creating a much-needed public space for women to speak up about the violence …
Literature April 15, 2019

An Imperfect Rapture

Kelly J. Beard

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Many of you listening to this now probably recall growing up in a household of faith. You may have fond memories of the familiar rituals, the holidays, the shared family …
Literature February 8, 2019

Island in the City

Micah McCrary

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
If you read a lot of nonfiction, you may be familiar with what some call the “memoir quandary”—the complaint that memoir and autobiography are too narrowly focused on the writer’s …
Literature December 17, 2018

Five Plots

Erica Trabold

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
When you picture the midwestern United States, what do you see? For those who live on either coast, the phrase “flyover country,” might come to mind. Wide open spaces and …
Literature October 12, 2018

Beyond Measure

Rachel Z. Arndt

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Our world today is full of algorithms and metrics designed to help us keep up, to keep track, to keep going. New devices, such as the smartwatch, now make it …
Literature August 27, 2018

The Electric Woman

A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts

Tessa Fontaine

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
Who doesn’t remember their first trip to the county fair? The greasy hotdogs and popcorn and cotton candy. The lights and sounds of the seemingly endless games and rides and …
Literature July 3, 2018

Goodbye, Sweet Girl

A Story of Domestic Abuse and Survival

Kelly Sundberg

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
If you’ve read the news or been on the internet at all this year, you’ve probably come across the hashtag #MeToo, the rallying cry of a movement aimed at calling …
Sports May 3, 2018

Beep

Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind

David Wanczyk

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
We all know baseball as one of America’s fondest pastimes, but did you know there’s a version of the sport designed specifically for the blind? It’s called Beep Ball, and …
Literature February 28, 2018

The Book of Resting Places

A Personal History of Where We Lay the Dead

Thomas Mira y Lopez

Hosted by Zoe Bossiere
We've all participated in the rituals of the dead at some time or another in our lives, going to funerals and wakes, visiting loved ones in cemeteries. Some of us …