Borges Must Be Rolling in His Grave - Zoé Mahfouz
Zoé Mahfouz is a multi-talented French artist: an award-winning bilingual Actress, Screenwriter, Writer, Comedy Writer, and Content Creator, whose work spans fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. An alumna of the London Film School with a Master’s degree in Screenwriting, her style is often described as “very tongue-in-cheek,” “kookie,” and “random.” Her sitcom scripts have received praise from major international film festivals, including the Filmmatic Comedy Screenplay Awards, Hollywood Comedy Shorts, and the Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, a Canadian Screen Award-qualifying event. Her other writing has appeared in more than 80 literary magazines and best-of anthologies worldwide, including Cleaver Magazine, Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Review, OPEN: Journal of Arts & Letters, NUNUM, and respected Japanese publications such as Ginyu (avant-garde poetry) and The Asahi Shimbun (a major national newspaper). A Best Small Fictions nominee, she is also the author of the chapbook Borges Must Be Rolling in His Grave (Dancing Girl Press, 2025).
GENRE: Poetry (chapbook)
Blurb:
The collection offers an exploration of the mind’s most enigmatic and unsettling territories, from the more common struggles of insomnia and anorexia to the rarer, more complex mental health conditions like Cotard’s delusion, drapetomania, and Charles Bonnet syndrome. In this collection, the language is both defiant and lush, weaving together myth, medicine, and metaphor in a high-voltage poetic style.
