
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.