Zhenevere Sophia Dao

Zhenevere Sophia Dao is a poet, novelist (Penguin Books), playwright, and existential and cultural philosopher. She was a Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University, after which she relinquished a Jones Lectureship position in Poetry and Creative Writing at Stanford, leaving academia to become a blacksmith farrier (horseshoer) and an independent scholar. She is the founder of Mythosomatic Movement, an original body of mythopoetic movement art, and the philosophies of Post-Daoism and Neo-Romanticism. With her partner, vocalist Willa Roberts, she teaches workshops in INVERSIONS OF POWER: Profound Experimental Theaters of Body & Song. Zhenevere makes the substantial part of her living in the field of horse podiatry, as a barefoot trimmer and a blacksmith farrier.