MY WORK

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

Transgender Instructors and Students: The Politics and Pedagogies of Accessibility
                       Visible Pedagogy, CUNY Graduate Center,  2019

"What Does It Mean to Search? Whiteness, Cisness, & The Canon: A (Transgenre) Literacy Narrative"
                       Entropy Magazine, 2018

"Transition As Act of Consent//Writing As Act of Consent//Ghosts As Act of Consent"
                     The VIDA Review, 2017

"When I was young I made masks"
                              Dreginald Issue 12, 2017

"On Jordan Rice's Constellarium and the Transition Poem"
                     Apogee Journal, 2017

Poet of the Week: An Interview With Brooklyn Poets
                      Brooklyn Poets, 2017

sundress comma fangs: a collaborative zine with Jesse Rice-Evans
                self-published, 2016 [click here to purchase]

Poems

"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

"Girl Work," "Girl Work"
                              The Puritan, 2020

"Ghost Story"
                              The Shallow Ends, 2019

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

"Color Palette"
                              Foglifter, 2019 (Print)

"Girl Work"
                              Dreginald, 2019

"Girl Work," "Girl Work," "Girl Work"
                              The Felt, 2019

"Girl Work"
                              Peach Mag, 2019

Two Lizzie Borden Poems
                              The Texas Review, 2019 (Print)

"Necropastoral with Autobiographical Elements," "Necropastoral with Autobiographical Elements"
                              Bone Bouquet, 2019 (Print)

Four Lizzie Borden Poems
                              DIAGRAM, 2019

"A Woman Is Like A Thick Fog. Stranded Landmass. Tangled Waistband. Not To Be Trusted"
                              Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2018

"Girl Work," "Girl Work," "Girl Work."
                              Femmescapes Vol. 4, 2018

 "A Litany/Summer Box" and "Rape Fantasy"
                              Bomb Cyclone, 2018

 "When He Say He Hung,"
                             Muzzle Magazine, 2018

Four Lizzie Borden Poems
                              Jet Fuel Review, 2018

 Five Lizzie Borden Poems
                             Verse Press, 2018

"Daddy Lessons" and "When My Father Apologizes"
                              Brooklyn Poets, 2017

"Black Swan," "Ginger Fitzgerald Presents Bridget Demands Regarding Shared Lycanthropy," "Sleepaway Camp II," "Museum/Poem Beginning With Line By Sarah Fox," "From the Series 'My Ghost,'" and "Sarah Winchester Mystery Poem"
                            The Wanderer, 2017

Interviews, Press, & Conversations

10 Questions: An Interview with Zefyr Lisowski
                       Massachusetts Review, 2022
Blood Box: A Conversation with Zefyr Lisowski
                       Anomaly Magazine, 2019
Episode 30: A Conversation with Zefyr Lisowski
                       Waves Breaking, 2019 (Podcast)
A Conversation With Jesse Rice Evans
                       Seafoam Magazine, 2018

Video & Performance

New York Live Arts Fest 2017
   (performance starts at 7:00)

To view a portfolio of my visual art and design work instead, please click here.