Writing Alina
@zollizen.bsky.social
Presence-seeker, hope-writer.
https://artisttrust.org/artists/alina-zollfrank/
https://artisttrust.org/artists/alina-zollfrank/
Pinned
Bump, by Alina Zollfrank
The first time I remember she was bent over me with serious pupils popping out of her face, and I kept asking the nice lady who she was. “I’m your Mama,” she said, and the winter sun shone through …
halfwaydownthestairs.net
Ahhh, I'm excited about the timing of this December publication to include one of my earliest childhood memories. Halfway Down the Stairs's Intuition issue is gorgeous and a good place to sink your near-end-of-year brain into. halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/b...
Ahhh, I'm excited about the timing of this December publication to include one of my earliest childhood memories. Halfway Down the Stairs's Intuition issue is gorgeous and a good place to sink your near-end-of-year brain into. halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/b...
Bump, by Alina Zollfrank
The first time I remember she was bent over me with serious pupils popping out of her face, and I kept asking the nice lady who she was. “I’m your Mama,” she said, and the winter sun shone through …
halfwaydownthestairs.net
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Ahhh, I'm excited about the timing of this December publication to include one of my earliest childhood memories. Halfway Down the Stairs's Intuition issue is gorgeous and a good place to sink your near-end-of-year brain into. halfwaydownthestairs.net/2025/12/01/b...
This is needed, crucial, and vitally timed. literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
Coalition Launches Historic $50 Million Initiative to Bolster Nonprofit Literary Arts | Literary Arts Fund
New York, NY (October 28, 2025) – Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations—the Ford Foundation, Hawthornden Foundation, Lannan Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Mell...
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October 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
This is needed, crucial, and vitally timed. literaryartsfund.org/announcing-l...
www.chollaneedles.com published a rather candid essay I wrote in edition 106, AND the full-page black-and-white photography throughout and the popping cover page are courtesy of my sharp-eyed artistic firstborn. The editor is attentive and caring - a delightful experience!
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October 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
www.chollaneedles.com published a rather candid essay I wrote in edition 106, AND the full-page black-and-white photography throughout and the popping cover page are courtesy of my sharp-eyed artistic firstborn. The editor is attentive and caring - a delightful experience!
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🌟 BOTN nomination! 🌟
Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)
Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
🌟 BOTN nomination! 🌟
Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)
Alina Zollfrank (We’re All Just Tourists Here)
That's how I feel most of these days: NOPE. Thank you to Writers Resist for shouting what is true and urgent and uncomfortable into the world, and for publishing my www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
(Support independent publishers and journals. The arts will keep truth and humanity afloat.)
(Support independent publishers and journals. The arts will keep truth and humanity afloat.)
NOPE – Writers Resist
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September 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
That's how I feel most of these days: NOPE. Thank you to Writers Resist for shouting what is true and urgent and uncomfortable into the world, and for publishing my www.writersresist.com/2025/09/24/n...
(Support independent publishers and journals. The arts will keep truth and humanity afloat.)
(Support independent publishers and journals. The arts will keep truth and humanity afloat.)
So, whatcha readin'?
September 22, 2025 at 12:30 AM
So, whatcha readin'?
So excited about Tint Journal choosing to work with me! I felt called to highlight some of the profound learning that happens when we invite foreign exchange and refugee students into communities.This was a formative period in my life.
#ESL #ELL #exchange #school #culture #memoir
#ESL #ELL #exchange #school #culture #memoir
September 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Let me do you a favor. If you're over, say, 45, and you have brought children to adulthood or near adulthood, and if you have parents or memories of parents, and if you've had love and loss and sand between your toes, your heart wants to read this book. #sandwich #catherine_newman
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Let me do you a favor. If you're over, say, 45, and you have brought children to adulthood or near adulthood, and if you have parents or memories of parents, and if you've had love and loss and sand between your toes, your heart wants to read this book. #sandwich #catherine_newman
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The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period)
Alina Zollfrank
Unmentionable
www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank
Alina Zollfrank
Unmentionable
www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank
Alina Zollfrank — Corporeal
The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period)
www.corporeallitmag.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The truth, these days it turns against me more than not (period)
Alina Zollfrank
Unmentionable
www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank
Alina Zollfrank
Unmentionable
www.corporeallitmag.com/volume-xx/alinazollfrank
Thanks, anotherchicagomag.bsky.social, for helping me give a voice to something that needs one. "You get how this system is an entity that assumes people exist to serve it in perpetuity, instead of the system serving the people."
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r...
#insurance #menstruation
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r...
#insurance #menstruation
July 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Thanks, anotherchicagomag.bsky.social, for helping me give a voice to something that needs one. "You get how this system is an entity that assumes people exist to serve it in perpetuity, instead of the system serving the people."
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r...
#insurance #menstruation
anotherchicagomagazine.net/2025/07/29/r...
#insurance #menstruation
Ha! This one is outside of my usual repertoire but a pretty accurate description of %$^& that's happened to us. oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-alin... Thanks to all of you making the art, speaking the words, and supporting the things and people who need supporting. #poetry #wordplay #doom #oddball
Poem by Alina Zollfrank - oddball magazine
Artwork by Mark Blickley
oddballmagazine.com
July 16, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Ha! This one is outside of my usual repertoire but a pretty accurate description of %$^& that's happened to us. oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-alin... Thanks to all of you making the art, speaking the words, and supporting the things and people who need supporting. #poetry #wordplay #doom #oddball
Excited that HOOT chose me for their July postcard. And yes, you can order postcards by subscribing to www.hootreview.com/and supporting a small, independent platform for the arts! www.hootreview.com/.../hoot-pos...
July 8, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Excited that HOOT chose me for their July postcard. And yes, you can order postcards by subscribing to www.hootreview.com/and supporting a small, independent platform for the arts! www.hootreview.com/.../hoot-pos...
Read this. I mean it. It is GORGEOUS and CLAIRVOYANT. Racial issues? Check. Book bans? Check. Power grabs? Check. History rewritten? Check. Borders & wars? Check. Bodily autonomy? Check. And so much beauty. And yes, sizzle 🙂. Read this. #Laurie_Forest #The_Black_Witch #fantasy #novel #resistance
June 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Read this. I mean it. It is GORGEOUS and CLAIRVOYANT. Racial issues? Check. Book bans? Check. Power grabs? Check. History rewritten? Check. Borders & wars? Check. Bodily autonomy? Check. And so much beauty. And yes, sizzle 🙂. Read this. #Laurie_Forest #The_Black_Witch #fantasy #novel #resistance
Unreasonably proud that my piece "(Tongue)Eaters" is in SAND Journal's Issue 8. A gorgeous publication that couldn't have come at a better time when we worry about our people, all species, and the planet. #environmentalism #nonfiction #resistance #renewal
June 1, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Unreasonably proud that my piece "(Tongue)Eaters" is in SAND Journal's Issue 8. A gorgeous publication that couldn't have come at a better time when we worry about our people, all species, and the planet. #environmentalism #nonfiction #resistance #renewal
This is a first. My firstborn has two pieces of photography in this, and I a poem. We love, love Last Leaves Literary Magazine. Please support small presses & journals. Free download for this **Issue 10** at www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-.... Print copies available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
Last Leaves Issues | Last Leaves Mag
Literary magazine accepting art and poetry submissions.
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May 27, 2025 at 12:55 AM
This is a first. My firstborn has two pieces of photography in this, and I a poem. We love, love Last Leaves Literary Magazine. Please support small presses & journals. Free download for this **Issue 10** at www.lastleavesmag.com/last-leaves-.... Print copies available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon.
So glad this piece landed at Full House Literary. Reality is what we make of it. www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...
We’re All Just Tourists Here by Alina Zollfrank — Full House Literary
www.fullhouseliterary.com
May 14, 2025 at 5:34 AM
So glad this piece landed at Full House Literary. Reality is what we make of it. www.fullhouseliterary.com/prose-script...
"The threat of collapse and utter loss can provoke a deeper sense of wholeness, where nothing but total involvement and whole-heartedness will work." - quote of the day from Michael Meade's nourishing book "Why the World Doesn't End"
April 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
"The threat of collapse and utter loss can provoke a deeper sense of wholeness, where nothing but total involvement and whole-heartedness will work." - quote of the day from Michael Meade's nourishing book "Why the World Doesn't End"
Good book for all women to ready today. Loss comes in all shapes and forms. So do clarity, and empowerment. And: it's beautifully written. Grab those tissues.
March 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Good book for all women to ready today. Loss comes in all shapes and forms. So do clarity, and empowerment. And: it's beautifully written. Grab those tissues.
NPR wants to know how people are doing with the whole free-speech thing. www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g...
Do you feel you can exercise your right to free speech? NPR wants to hear from you
NPR wants to know who is feeling more and less free to exercise their free speech rights in this moment. Have you found yourself letting loose more under President Trump or are you holding back?
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March 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
NPR wants to know how people are doing with the whole free-speech thing. www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g...
Musings on guns and birds and cancer and, well, peace. My gratitude to Sierra Nevada Review for the care and editorial guidance. To all of you reading: pretend you're birds today. www.sierranevadareview.com/alina-zollfr...
#poetry #piece #guns #cancer #evolution #technology #peace
#poetry #piece #guns #cancer #evolution #technology #peace
Skin and Feathers | Alina Zollfrank — Sierra Nevada Review
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March 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Musings on guns and birds and cancer and, well, peace. My gratitude to Sierra Nevada Review for the care and editorial guidance. To all of you reading: pretend you're birds today. www.sierranevadareview.com/alina-zollfr...
#poetry #piece #guns #cancer #evolution #technology #peace
#poetry #piece #guns #cancer #evolution #technology #peace
What I'm reading right now. Why? Humanity. Shared truth. Feelings, feelings, feelings. Where to donate? poemsnotbombs.org
#poetry #Ukraine #dictator #war #deafness #suffering #peace #children
#poetry #Ukraine #dictator #war #deafness #suffering #peace #children
February 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
What I'm reading right now. Why? Humanity. Shared truth. Feelings, feelings, feelings. Where to donate? poemsnotbombs.org
#poetry #Ukraine #dictator #war #deafness #suffering #peace #children
#poetry #Ukraine #dictator #war #deafness #suffering #peace #children
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I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
February 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I am the great-grandson of a man who led his family out of the shtetl to a strange land in search of a better life. I am the grandson of the three-year-old boy on that journey. My English name is Marc, but my Hebrew name is Elhanan (אֶלְחָנָן)—after the warrior in David’s army who slew a powerful giant.