SELECTED WORK

The cover of Zefyr Lisowski's 2024 poetry collection, Girl Work: yellow words on a purple, watery background.

I am the author of two books: the essay collection Uncanny Valley Girls (Harper Perennial 2025) and the poetry collection Girl Work (Noemi Press 2024). I am also the author of Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press, 2019), a poetry chapbook about Lizzie Borden.

Select other pieces are below.

PROSE

Uncanny Valley of the Dolls,
The Believer, 2024

Grieving My Father—And My Book—By Building A Dollhouse
Catapult, 2022

My Mother, My Ex, and Facial Feminization Surgery: A Graphic Narrative
Catapult, 2022

The Girl, The Well, The Ring
The Offing, 2020 (Republished in It Came From The Closet, Feminist Press 2022)

Notes on Power, Access, and Visibility
The Poetry Project Newsletter, 2020 (Print)

On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls
Literary Hub, 2019

POETRY

“Against Forgiveness”
                              Split This Rock, 2022

From “Ghostdaughter”
                              Massachusetts Review, 2022

“Poem Only About Beauty”
                              Black Warrior Review, 2021

“Poem Only About Girl Work;” “To Be A Girl is Always to be a Dead Girl”
                              Wildness, 2021

“Girl Work,”  “Girl Work,” “To Be A Girl Is Always To Be A Dead Girl”
                              Waxwing, 2020

“Ghost Story”
                              The Shallow Ends, 2019

“After I Become Well, I Throw Myself Into the Well Hole”
                              Nat Brut, 2019

INTERVIEWS

Zefyr Lisowski by Sloane Holzer
                       BOMB Magazine, 2025

Ten Questions for Zefyr Lisowski
                       Poets & Writers, 2024

10 Questions: An Interview with Zefyr Lisowski
                       Massachusetts Review, 2022

Blood Box: A Conversation with Zefyr Lisowski
Anomaly Magazine, 2019

A more thorough archive of work is available here.