Zoe Butler’s Story
Zoe Butler launched her career in 2022 as an Americana singer-songwriter. She was raised in Portsmouth, Rhode Island and graduated from Brown University with a degree in economics and Africana Studies. The 24-year-old artist moved to Nashville in 2020 to pursue music and teach 9th grade math at a public high school. Fellow singer-songwriter, , connected Butler to producer Mike Fahey. Butler’s priority as a songwriter has always been to tell meaningful stories. Storytellers that have influenced her lyrics include , , , Edna St. Vincent Millay, W.H. Auden, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. She has been writing songs and short stories since elementary school and in 2017 she was recognized as a notable essay in the “Modern Love” College Essay Contest in the New York Times. Butler's debut EP, June, is her story of grief, friendship, anger and first loves.
