Stories
People of Consequence, Story (print), forthcoming Summer 2025.
Frango, The Cincinnati Review (print), May 2025.
Ark, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, April 2022.
Substances: A School Year, Craft, March 2022.
Double or Nothing, winner of the 2021 Rougarou Fabulism and Speculative Fiction Contest, Rougarou Journal of Arts and Literature, July 2021.
“In Zoe Ballering’s ‘Double or Nothing,’ you will find elegant and precise prose, a strange and compelling magical concept that unfolds and unfolds throughout the story in unexpected ways, and a conclusion that is both satisfying and gasp-worthy. I was amazed by the fullness in this story, despite its almost minimalist style and the absences left in the narrative for the reader to contemplate long after the story is over.”
— Christopher Barzak, contest judge and author of One for Sorrow
Is That Sweet?, Gold Man Review (print), November 2020.
Mothers, Hobart, November 2020.
Other Writing
Dispatch from the Garbage Dump: On Getting an MFA, Nunum, November 2018.
Art by Arcadia Trueheart