Tracy Zeman

Tracy Zeman is a poet and essayist from Illinois who now lives outside Detroit, Michigan. Her work focuses on ecology, habitat, and environmental crisis. She has published two poetry collections with Parlor Press: Empire (2020), which won the New Measure Poetry Prize, and Interglacial (2026). Her poems and essays have appeared in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, and Colorado Review. Zeman teaches writing and literature at the University of Michigan and has held residencies at places such as Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and Ox-Bow.