Bio.

Woman with curly hair wearing a denim shirt and shorts, standing in a garden with green plants and flowers, looking down at the flowers.


O.E. (Zoë) Zelmanovich
is a sixth-generation Pittsburgher who thrives in communities of dreamers and doers.

They are a proud dilettante and have been an activist, a bicyclist, a communard, a dancer, a facilitator, a gardener, a home organizer, a mediator, a nonprofit office manager, a parent, a renovator, a yoga teacher, and a crew member of a floating sculpture.

They are a lover of books, words, and ideas and currently work as a freelance book indexer. They have also been a rare-book appraiser, a library school dropout, a techno-scrivener, a co-owner of a radical bookstore, and a member of many book clubs.

Zoë is committed to lifelong learning and unlearning; daily embodiment practices; and building interdependent, regenerative, and liberatory cultures.