Zefyr Rose Lisowski
@zefrrr.bsky.social
poet :) essayist :) horror girl :) transsexual :)
Books: Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press 2019), Girl Work (Noemi Press 2024), Uncanny Valley Girls (Harper Perennial 2025)
zeflisowski.com
Books: Blood Box (Black Lawrence Press 2019), Girl Work (Noemi Press 2024), Uncanny Valley Girls (Harper Perennial 2025)
zeflisowski.com
Hopping back onto this site for the first time in months to say that my forthcoming essay collection about horror movies, intimacy, and love, Uncanny Valley Girls, has an official cover :) She's so beautiful! Forthcoming from Harper Perennial this October!
April 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Hopping back onto this site for the first time in months to say that my forthcoming essay collection about horror movies, intimacy, and love, Uncanny Valley Girls, has an official cover :) She's so beautiful! Forthcoming from Harper Perennial this October!
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#AWP25 people! if you are free that Friday night, check out this stacked line-up — @nicanstett.bsky.social @cdeskilson.bsky.social @eveharms.com @cavar.bsky.social @mariahdarling6.bsky.social @brigonzalez.bsky.social @zefrrr.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
#AWP25 people! if you are free that Friday night, check out this stacked line-up — @nicanstett.bsky.social @cdeskilson.bsky.social @eveharms.com @cavar.bsky.social @mariahdarling6.bsky.social @brigonzalez.bsky.social @zefrrr.bsky.social @olivasthewriter.bsky.social
Such a sweet and astute review 💗
Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski is a poetry collection meditating on the violences that shape gender—how femininity is sculpted by expectation, how desire is tangled with harm, how to live inside a body constantly objectified.
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Review by bisexualbookshelf - Girl Work
To read Girl Work by Zefyr Lisowski is to step into a landscape of jagged edges and unraveling...
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February 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Such a sweet and astute review 💗
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Sharing this essay I published in 2019 on caring for trans youth as an ethical practice since there is a global crackdown on trans care. I wrote this essay to also reflect on my experience transitioning as a teen, since I truly think it made my life better. philpapers.org/archive/MARG...
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January 31, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Sharing this essay I published in 2019 on caring for trans youth as an ethical practice since there is a global crackdown on trans care. I wrote this essay to also reflect on my experience transitioning as a teen, since I truly think it made my life better. philpapers.org/archive/MARG...
boy did i pick a year to become a Public Trans Writer
January 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
boy did i pick a year to become a Public Trans Writer
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I went on @ezrakupor.bsky.social's new series Galley Brag to talk about book reviewing, pitching, publicity, and my upcoming book Herculine.
galleybrag.substack.com/p/galley-bra...
galleybrag.substack.com/p/galley-bra...
Galley Brag #4
Grace Byron on pitching reviews, Brat Girl Summer, and the debut author's role in publishing a book <3
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January 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I went on @ezrakupor.bsky.social's new series Galley Brag to talk about book reviewing, pitching, publicity, and my upcoming book Herculine.
galleybrag.substack.com/p/galley-bra...
galleybrag.substack.com/p/galley-bra...
Annoyed once again at the pablum of writing as self-care, but honestly this transsexual lesbian werewolf novel I'm working on is unclenching some things that 10+ years of therapy haven't shaken out
January 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Annoyed once again at the pablum of writing as self-care, but honestly this transsexual lesbian werewolf novel I'm working on is unclenching some things that 10+ years of therapy haven't shaken out
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I wrote about new books from @jeannethornton.bsky.social @torreypeters.bsky.social @harronwawker.bsky.social @veryhotmomm.bsky.social @xbennyboo.bsky.social @thedennemichele.bsky.social @cuteflesh.bsky.social @vivianblaxell.bsky.social and more!
Trans Fem Literary Springtime - Notes - e-flux
McKenzie Wark provides a roundup of forthcoming fiction and literary nonfiction by and about trans women.
www.e-flux.com
January 9, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For my first newsletter post, I wrote about running, pain, naming, and blood 🖤 I’d love if you read—more to come soon 🩸
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January 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
For my first newsletter post, I wrote about running, pain, naming, and blood 🖤 I’d love if you read—more to come soon 🩸
i’m starting a newsletter! focusing on film/book crit and personal essay, thinking thru intersections of violence + desire, things that are done to us and things we do in turn, + revolutionary desire vs the representation of that desire in the media we consume. more information to come!
December 27, 2024 at 12:46 AM
i’m starting a newsletter! focusing on film/book crit and personal essay, thinking thru intersections of violence + desire, things that are done to us and things we do in turn, + revolutionary desire vs the representation of that desire in the media we consume. more information to come!
Not doing a year-end best-of list but just watched The Devil’s Bath and hands down it’s my favorite film that came out this whole year
December 17, 2024 at 5:06 AM
Not doing a year-end best-of list but just watched The Devil’s Bath and hands down it’s my favorite film that came out this whole year
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Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :)
Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)
Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)
November 18, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Not that you asked, but here's a big roundup of upcoming books by trans authors that you can preorder now! :)
Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)
Links to individual books below. (Asterisks indicate that this author has been interviewed on the cool podcast Gender Reveal.)
Hi new followers :) I don’t love social media :) So will only be posting around my upcoming book really :) But will be posting around that soon regardless :)
November 19, 2024 at 1:20 AM
Hi new followers :) I don’t love social media :) So will only be posting around my upcoming book really :) But will be posting around that soon regardless :)
For Electric Literature, I wrote about my favorite movie, learning to love the South, and doing things that hurt as self-care: electricliterature.com/i-loved-texa...
I Loved “Texas Chain Saw Massacre” Before I Loved Myself - Electric Literature
With each rewatch, I got further from the me I was in high school and closer to my truest self
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October 31, 2023 at 3:53 PM
For Electric Literature, I wrote about my favorite movie, learning to love the South, and doing things that hurt as self-care: electricliterature.com/i-loved-texa...
For
@clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about the recent How The Clinic Made Gender, a book that’s not just insidious, but poorly written to boot: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/cis-...
@clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about the recent How The Clinic Made Gender, a book that’s not just insidious, but poorly written to boot: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/cis-...
Cis Gender Studies — Cleveland Review of Books
Why shouldn’t we ask for more?
www.clereviewofbooks.com
September 13, 2023 at 7:55 PM
For
@clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about the recent How The Clinic Made Gender, a book that’s not just insidious, but poorly written to boot: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/cis-...
@clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about the recent How The Clinic Made Gender, a book that’s not just insidious, but poorly written to boot: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/cis-...
with every year that passes, the popularity jack nicholson experienced gets more befuddling
September 10, 2023 at 4:30 PM
with every year that passes, the popularity jack nicholson experienced gets more befuddling
I have an agent now :)
August 5, 2023 at 1:08 AM
I have an agent now :)
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oh my god the barbie movie is gonna yield soooo many terrible final papers for intro gender studies classes this fall
July 10, 2023 at 7:15 PM
oh my god the barbie movie is gonna yield soooo many terrible final papers for intro gender studies classes this fall
women are meant to receive secrets bc it satisfies our primitive desire to gather nuts (gossip) + berries (forbidden truths)
July 10, 2023 at 9:13 PM
women are meant to receive secrets bc it satisfies our primitive desire to gather nuts (gossip) + berries (forbidden truths)
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do we share here? on twitter? both? idk but I wrote about womb transplants, Jacqueline Rose, Sheila Heti, and trans motherhood. feel free to retweet it there here or just send it out by carrier pigeon
https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/14986/assigned-womb-at-birth-an-essay-on-trans-motherhood
https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/14986/assigned-womb-at-birth-an-essay-on-trans-motherhood
Assigned Womb at Birth: An Essay on Trans Motherhood
Ahead of Trans Pride in London tomorrow, AnOther publishes an essay by Grace Byron on the topic of transness and pregnancy; the cultural weight of being told to be a mother and of being told you canno...
www.anothermag.com
July 7, 2023 at 5:47 PM
do we share here? on twitter? both? idk but I wrote about womb transplants, Jacqueline Rose, Sheila Heti, and trans motherhood. feel free to retweet it there here or just send it out by carrier pigeon
https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/14986/assigned-womb-at-birth-an-essay-on-trans-motherhood
https://www.anothermag.com/design-living/14986/assigned-womb-at-birth-an-essay-on-trans-motherhood
just got some cute news that I can’t wait to share :) send good vibes :)
July 6, 2023 at 5:12 PM
just got some cute news that I can’t wait to share :) send good vibes :)
many things I miss about the artist retreat I went on last month, but foremost among them is one of the best selfie mirrors/lighting combos I’ve ever seen
July 5, 2023 at 8:05 PM
many things I miss about the artist retreat I went on last month, but foremost among them is one of the best selfie mirrors/lighting combos I’ve ever seen
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Hi new (+ old) followers! Most of my writing I post on instagram, but for those of you who haven’t read it yet, I wanted to share my most recent essay, on exes, changing through relationships, and Black Swan, a movie I did not like that someone I loved did. Pls read + share! 💕
Black Swan (2010): Uncanny Valley Girls
Black Swan is a movie about someone whose art is so pure it annihilates her. Or maybe it's a movie about someone who is persuaded to believe in an art so pure it can annihilate, and in doing so makes ...
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July 3, 2023 at 7:42 PM
Hi new (+ old) followers! Most of my writing I post on instagram, but for those of you who haven’t read it yet, I wanted to share my most recent essay, on exes, changing through relationships, and Black Swan, a movie I did not like that someone I loved did. Pls read + share! 💕
keeping all my discoursey posts on the other app where they belong
July 5, 2023 at 6:26 PM
keeping all my discoursey posts on the other app where they belong