In 2015, Zoë Harland graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Creative and Professional Writing). In addition to published works indexed on AustLit, her works have been shortlisted or commended in the Lane Cove Literary Award, the Boroondara Open Short Story Award, the Tabor Adelaide Writing Award, and the Writers of the Future 3rd Quarter. In 2015, she won the Lane Cove Market Square Youth Prize for 'Money Shot'.