Zoë Meager is from Ōtautahi, Aotearoa New Zealand and has a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Auckland.

She won the 2013 Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, Pacific Region, with her story Things with faces. Her work has also been recognised in the Overland Story Wine Prize, the Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize, the Bath Flash Fiction Award, the North & South Short, Short Story Competition, the Sargeson Prize, and the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize. She was awarded the 2024 Sargeson Fellowship.

Her work has been published abroad, including in Cheap Pop, Granta, Gigantic Sequins, Janus Literary, Litro, Lost Balloon, Mascara Literary Review, Maudlin House, Meniscus, MoonParkReview, Overland, Splonk, The New Guard, The Offing, and Word-o-Mat. Her work has also been anthologised in two Bath Flash Fiction anthologies, among others. 

Locally, her work has appeared in journals including Headland, Hue and Cry, Landfall, Mayhem, Oscen, Sponge, and Turbine | Kapohau, and been anthologised in Bonsai: Best small stories from Aotearoa New Zealand and two volumes of Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy.

Zoë is the Fiction Editor and Comics Co-editor at takahē, and a mentor at The Creative Hub.