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Zoë Lescaze is a writer covering science and art. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, and T Magazine, among other publications.
With Alice Hines, she is the creator and host of Mind Games: a podcast on hypnosis and NLP. Listen here and read about it in the New York Post.
Her book, Paleoart: Visions of the Prehistoric Past, explores the ways artists and scientists have reconstructed the primordial world. Published in five languages, it’s the most comprehensive book on paleoart to date. You can read reviews in the New York Times Book Review, Wall Street Journal, and London Review of Books, among other outlets. New edition have been published in 2025 and 2026.
As a journalist, Zoë has covered the fossil market, meteorites, climate change, invasive species, medieval medicine, collective intelligence. In recent artist profiles, she’s written about polar exploration, food scarcity, voluntary death, and the fraught history of botany.
Between 2017 and 2021, Zoë was editor in chief of The Tortoise, an environmental magazine focused (yes) on turtles and tortoises. She co-parents two rescue reptiles: Daisy the python and Daphne the tortoise.