My name is Zoë, and I'm a singer/songwriter.

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I write songs about all kinds of odds and ends - shoes, ships, sealing wax, cabbages, kings - but I always find myself returning to the themes of landscape, love, time, death and the strange way that being a creature feels and creates meaning in the swirling eddies of spacetime. I also write about motherhood, and the emotional saga of becoming a parent. I draw musical influence from the great Canadian voices of Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. I also have a special place in my heart for the dark charisma of Tom Waits, the heartbreakingly beautiful work of Townes Van Zandt, and cult hero Sixto Rodriguez. My lyrics are confessional, poetic, sometimes funny and often suffused with dark, woodsy imagery. My chords and melodies run the gamut from traditionally folky to jazzy, sometimes with a country bent. When I put on a show, just me and my acoustic guitar, I offer something unflinchingly personal, but also uplifting in its honesty.