Fiction
Lisa is a recent graduate from the prestigious Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, where she studied Fiction as an Inprint Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Fellow as well as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Scholar.
She is at work on a novel and a collection of short stories.
Short Stories
"What Is Ours"
Winner | 2023 PEN America / Robert J Dau Prize
Publication | Best Debut Short Stories 2023 (Catapult Books)
Original Publication | Nimrod International Journal | Summer/Spring 2022 Issue
Winner | 2021 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers
"Field Methods"
Finalist | 2022 Passages North Waasnode Fiction Prize
Finalist | 2022 Masters Review Anthology XI
"39 to Beam Up"
Publication | Ghost Parachute | December 2023
"Darlings"
Publication | Moot Point Magazine | December 2022
Juried Conferences & Honors
Bread Loaf Writers' Conference
Fiction | Winner of 2022 Bread Loaf Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award in Fiction
Tin House Summer Workshop
Short Fiction | Lidia Yuknavitch | Residential, Summer 2022
Kenyon Review Writers Workshop
Fiction | Marie-Helene Bertino | Residential, Summer 2022
Grub Street
Parents Writing Group | Sophie Powell-Westra| Fall 2023
CRIT Workshop
Fiction | Tony Tulathimutte | Spring 2023
ONE Story Writing Circle
Fiction | January to December 2024
Residencies
Ucross Foundation
Fiction Fellow | Clearmont, WY | June 2023
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Fiction Fellow | Amherst, VA | Fall 2023
[Accepted but unable to attend]
Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow
Fiction | Eureka Springs, AK | May 2023
Collaborations
University of Houston
Steve Rowell (Guggenheim Fellow)
"Toxic Houston: A Field Guide to Environmental Justice"
Visiting Artist – Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Fall 2022
Fellowships
University of Houston
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Scholar | 2022–23
Inprint Jesse H. Jones and Mary Gibbs Fellow | 2020–2023
CJ Fellow | 2020–2023
Teaching
Inprint Writers' Workshops
Advanced Fiction Workshop | Houston, TX | Summer 2023
Fiction Workshop | Houston, TX | Spring 2023
Boldface Writer's Conference 2022
Embodied Fiction Workshop | Glass Mountain Magazine | Houston, TX | Spring 2022
Rice University,
Visual & Dramatic Arts Department
Intro to Acting | Houston, TX | August 2012 – May 2017
University of Houston,
School of Theatre & Dance
Intro to Theatre | Houston, TX | August 2011 – May 2013