Zoe Cormier

Background

About Zoe Cormier

Zoe Cormier is an author, journalist, public speaker and events producer with a background in biology. Based in London, she is represented by the Artists Partnership, an agency that represents Idris Elba, Harvey Keitel, Kim Cattrall, Jeremy Irons and many more. Her first book, Sex, Drugs and Rock n’ Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science – hand-picked by The Guardian as a must-read science book – was published by Profile in August 2014 in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. It will be released in the US and Canada in March 2015, and in Sweden, Spain and other countries in 2016. Her work has featured in The Times, Wired, Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, BBC Focus and other publications. She has been shortlisted twice for the Canadian National Magazine Awards: first with a 2005 cover story on vaginal plastic surgery for Shameless, and for a 2006 feature for This Magazine on climate change spin doctoring. She was a columnist, compiling a digest of environmental news and trends for The Globe and Mail – Canada’s largest national newspaper – twice monthly between 2007 and 2009. Her face appeared on the cover of The Times in September 2014accompanied an editorial about naked self portraits. Zoe is also a founder of UK science outreach organisation Guerilla Science, a rogue group of science communicators who create events and installations for festivals, museums, galleries, and other cultural clients: a New Scientist profile of Zoe as a “science impresario” can be viewed (full frontal nudity and all) online. She holds an Honours B.Sc. in zoology from the University of Toronto, which she received with high distinction in 2005. Born and raised in the east end of Toronto, in between Chinatown and Indiatown, Zoe now lives in London, England.