Lisa Allen

Lisa Allen (she/her) is the author of It’s What I’ve Got Left (Lily Poetry Press). Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Listen to Your Mother: What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now (Putnam, 2015), The Bacopa Literary Review (2018 and 2019), the anthology Feckless Cunt (World Split Open Press, 2018), Midway Journal (2019), Lily Poetry Review (2019), 3Elements Review (2019), Dine: An Anthology (Books by Hippocampus, 2020), December Magazine (2020), Pinch, Anti-Heroin Chic, Bear Review and MER, among others. She has been nominated numerous times for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net and was a 2022 Best of the Net finalist for her poem “Prolapse: Etymology,” published by South 85 Journal.

She holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the Solstice Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lasell College, where she was a Michael Steinberg fellow in Creative Nonfiction. With Poet Rebecca Connors, she is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the online creative space The Notebooks Collective.