BOOKS
A Revisionist History of Loving Men
Lena Ziegler doesn't know how to talk about love.
In 2017, five years after she had been raped by a stranger on the morning after her twenty-third birthday, she came to a startling realization: three out of four of her serious relationships also involved rape that she had never acknowledged, or named, up until that point. She spent the next five years researching sexual violence and excavating the darkest parts of herself and her life to compose A Revisionist History of Loving Men, a personal and critical exploration of the sexual scripts that exist between women and men, and the normalization of sexual violence as a routine part of heterosexual relationships in the landscape of American rape culture.
Braiding memoir, scholarly research, fragmented lyricism, and cultural commentary, this book is as much a reclamation of the self, as it is an invitation for all of us to reimagine what we consider "normal" when it comes to love and sex, and how easy it is to lose oneself along the borderlines.
Nonfiction
September 2025, Autofocus Books
MASH
Set out over 13 panels as a choose-your-own adventure narrative, written in lyrical and unflinching prose, Lena Ziegler's MASH is a chapbook about attraction, obsession, sex and writing.
"I2. You think about how you feel about the boy from your fiction class, how your skin reacts to the sight of him – your pores opening and closing like fish gills, breathing in the smell of his soap, his gentleness – and you remember that every boy you touch has their own version of this – the great, wonderful, unattainable girl, maybe from their geometry class, or bio lab – and whenever you settle for them, they are settling for you, and your bodies stacked are just bones settling, sinking into the grave of each others' flesh, worn out and half-shaved in the hope that someone else's hands were touching it instead."
[extract from MASH by Lena Ziegler]
Printed on 170gsm bond and 380mic pulp paper in England.
Fiction
The A3 Press
