Zoe Whittall Books in Order

These poems follow a young lesbian's coming of age through anxiety, heartbreak and humor. Popular culture and literary references mingle as Whittall explores personal experience, desire and the search for a place in the world.

Self-portraits, prose poems, invented fan letters, and confessional lyrics challenge cultural expectations of femininity. Whittall connects the aftermath of young love with the pop icons of an unconventional childhood, using humor and intimate detail to explore identity and desire.

In 1990s Montreal, eighteen-year-old Eve longs to leave her parents' home and begin a life of her own. Her relationship with an older separatist, Della, draws private desires into the city's political tensions as Quebec approaches its referendum.

Whittall's poems explore the divisions within the self and the dishonesty that can shape both identity and poetic expression. Medical language runs through reflections on love, relationships, and being human, combining humor with vulnerability and melancholy.

A former teen idol struggling with agoraphobia, a transgender paramedic, and a filmmaker recovering from heartbreak form an unusual love triangle. Their intersecting lives in Toronto explore anxiety, intimacy, and the uncertainty of adulthood in a generation shaped by constant connection.

Missy Turner considers her small-town life reassuringly ordinary until she loses her job, discovers her husband's betrayal, and is caught in a café robbery. These disruptions force her to question the assumptions that have made her world feel secure.

A respected teacher's arrest for sexual misconduct leaves his family facing suspicion, anger, and doubt. As he insists on his innocence, his wife and children struggle with community hostility and the possibility that the man they trust has deceived them.

A young touring musician, her estranged mother living through a scandal, and her elderly grandmother pursue different ideas of freedom. When circumstances bring them together again, three generations of women must reconsider motherhood, loyalty, and the lives they want.

Widowed Shelby and newly divorced Gibson each find relief from loneliness in charismatic Cammie. When their paths cross, inconsistencies in Cammie's accounts of illness and misfortune raise difficult questions about deception, vulnerability, and the stories people choose to believe.

In a memoir written through prose poetry, Whittall examines six years marked by a relationship's end, pregnancy loss, and pandemic isolation. Anxiety and grief become part of an inquiry into creativity, emotional survival, and the effort to keep writing.

Ten stories follow women navigating desire, shame, intimacy, and estrangement in relationships that resist easy expectations. A wilderness trip tests an agoraphobic lover, roommates become podcast subjects, and other encounters expose the risks of attachment and the consequences of bad decisions.