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Zoë Lescaze is a freelance writer, editor, and researcher based in Chicago. She is the author of Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past (Taschen, 2017), a book on changing depictions of the primordial world. Her articles and criticism have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, T Magazine, Artforum, Even, and Bookforum, among other publications.
She has curated exhibitions related to paleoart and other subjects in the history of science with collaborators at the Zoological Museum of the University of Zurich, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem, and the University of Chicago, where she earned a master’s degree in the History of Science.
From 2017 and 2021, Zoë served as the editor in chief of The Tortoise, an annual environmental magazine published by the Turtle Conservancy.