Interview with Zefyr Lisowski

In this episode, I had the opportunity to talk with Zefyr Lisowski about her book Blood Box. Zefyr Lisowski is a trans and queer writer, artist, and North Carolinian currently living in NYC. She's a Poetry Co-editor for Apogee Journal and the author of Blood Box, winner of the Black River Editor's Choice Award from Black Lawrence Press and forthcoming fall 2019; she's also the author of the microchap Wolf Inventory (Ghost City Press, 2018) and is a 2019 Tin House Summer Workshop Fellow. Zefyr's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Lit Hub, Nat. Brut., Muzzle Magazine, and DIAGRAM, among many other places; she's also received support from Sundress Academy for the Arts, McGill University, the New York Live Ideas Fest, and the 2019 CUNY Graduate Center Adjunct Incubator Grant for the arts. A 2018 nominee for the Pushcart Prize, she also goes by Zef. Zefyr Lisowski's website Go buy Blood Box!  Media, artists, books, etc mentioned in this episode: Sharon Pollock's play Blood Relations Angela Davis's short story "The Fall River Axe Murders" Angela Davis's Bloody Chamber Lizzie Borden's film Born in Flames Lizzie (2018 film) Muriel Leung  Joey De Jesus  Jessie Rice Evans  Cyree Jarelle Johnson's SLINGSHOT  (and here's my interview with Cyree) Diana Khoi Nguyen's Ghost Of  Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory"  @Mx_ctrl is my Instagram handle, and...I definitely failed Inktober  Samuel Ace/ Linda Smukler's Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don't wash.  Editor and Social Media Manager: Mitchel Davidovitz Sound of Waves Breaking is "Cicada Single" by Jedo.