Lisa St. John

Lisa St. John is a writer living in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York. She has published her poetry in several journals, including 2Elizabeths, Misfit Magazine, The Poet’s Billow, The Ekphrastic Review, Light, Entropy Magazine, The Poetry Distillery, Poets Reading the News, Boomer Lit, and Chronogram Magazine. The poem “There Must Be a Science to This” won The Poet’s Billow’s Bermuda Triangle Contest, and “Mowing the Lawn” was shortlisted for the Fish Poetry Prize and later published in Fish Anthology 2016. “Particle Song” was a finalist for the 2017 Rash Award in Poetry by Broad River Review. Her poem “The Whens of Now” was selected as a finalist for the New Millennium Writings 44th Literary Awards. “Where is Ophelia’s Mother?” won second place in the Poetry Society of Virginia’s Sarah Lockwood Memorial Poetry Prize. Lisa’s ekphrastic poetry has been selected for both the Ask For Arts 2020 Poetic License Exhibition and the Mid-Hudson Arts Exhibit, Poets Respond to Art. She can be found online.