"If there were a soundtrack to Theodora Ziolkowski's

On the Rocks it would be the tinkling toy piano tune that accompanies every creepy horror show featuring the relics of childhood in their dismembered afterlife. Atmospherically, this is where children are more mature than their parents, and the dead have more  volition than the living."
    —Antonya Nelson, author of Funny Once

 "The poems of Theodora Ziolkowski’s Ghostlit ripple with such self assured strength that it is impossible not to feel stronger and more resolute for having read them."

      —Kayleb Rae Candrilli

 "Ziolkowski is a master of tight narrative, of gothic energy, of intense psychological insight. Reading Ghostlit is like inhabiting a brilliant mind—a mind that, for all this, never fails to be interesting, to be complex, and to be powerful."

     —Kevin Prufer

"Ghostlit is a haunting and astonishing collection that  shimmers with love for the salt and flesh of desire."
     —Sebastián H. Páramo

  "Astounding, visceral, and, at heart, poignant."     

     —Hélène Cardona

"Theodora Ziolkowski comes from a line of writers including the late-greats Eudora Welty (in her sometimes under-appreciated comic mode), Flannery O'Connor, Charles Portis, and Lewis Nordan, and more recently the great George Singleton. She's darkly funny with a fine eye for the everyday bizarre absurdities that make you want to lie about some of the people you come from."                         

    —Brad Watson, author of Miss Jane