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 for the equestrian and blacksmithing vocations, and to become 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 companion, vocalist Willa Roberts, she teaches workshops in INVERSIONS OF POWER: Spiritualized Martial Arts & Profound Experimental Theaters of Body & Song. In addition to teaching classes in philosophy, critical cultural theory, and Mythosomatic Movement, Zhenevere makes her living in the field of horse podiatry, as a barefoot trimmer and a blacksmith farrier.