Originally inspired to write the third book in a planned trilogy (started by The Beautifully Worthless and followed by The Summer of Dead Birds) Liebegott traveled by train across the United States interviewing female poets. The project became The Heart has many Doors–, which takes its title from the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name. Excerpts from these interviews appeared monthly on The Believer Logger. The second book of this trilogy, The Summer of Dead Birds, had “never seen the light of day” until Feminist Press decided to publish it in 2019.

Liebegott’s collection of poems, The Summer of Dead Birds, is slated to be published in 2019 by the Feminist Press. She also plans to finish a novel which began as an illustrated project that includes over three hundred pen, ink, and watercolor drawings. The project, about a post-9/11 obsessive duck feeder, was started in 2001 and is titled The Crumb People.

In 2015, Liebegott, along with the rest of the writing staff, was honored with a Peabody Award for Season 2 of Transparent.

In 2014 Liebegott joined the writing staff of Amazon’s original series Transparent, created by Jill Soloway. Ali has written and produced for the entire run of Transparent, which has earned a Peabody Award and multiple Golden Globe and Emmy Awards, including the Golden Globe for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy.

Liebegott, whose uncle was a blackjack dealer, released her novel Cha-Ching! in March 2013 co-published by City Lights and Sister Spit. Cha-Ching! follows a butch dyke named Theo who moves from San Francisco to Brooklyn and deals with addictions to gambling, alcohol and drugs.

Animals often play significant roles in her work. Liebegott has cared for rescued dogs and cats. The 2013 reprint of The Beautifully Worthless was dedicated to Rorschach, her late dog, and inspiration for the character in the book. Liebegott has stated that a dream of hers is to one day own a farm filled with rescued animals. Some time in 2011 she rescued a street dog from Mexico and flew her back to San Francisco.

Liebegott won the 2009 Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT literature, for The IHOP Papers. She has won two Lambda Literary Awards, in the categories of Lesbian Debut Fiction for The Beautifully Worthless in 2006, and Lesbian Fiction for The IHOP Papers in 2008.

In 2005, Liebegott published her first book, The Beautifully Worthless, on Suspect Thoughts Press. This queer, female modern day road epic follows a runaway waitress and her Dalmatian, Rorschach, across America. Liebegott wanted to subvert the epic poem by putting a queer female at the center of the book. The Beautifully Worthless, is a hybrid work of poems, letters, lists and prose pieces that form a narrative.

Liebegott’s second book, The IHOP Papers, is a coming of age novel following a troubled queer waitress. It’s set in early 1990s San Francisco during the AIDS epidemic. The novel won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBT Literature in 2008 and a Lambda Literary Award for Women’s Fiction.