Fiction
Lisa is a graduate of 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
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Publication | Best Debut Short Stories 2023 (Catapult Books)
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Original Publication | Nimrod International Journal | Summer/Spring 2022 Issue
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Winner | 2021 Francine Ringold Award for New Writers
"Field Methods"
Publication | Michigan Quarterly Review | Forthcoming Winter 2025 Issue
Finalist | 2022 Passages North Waasnode Fiction Prize
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Finalist | 2022 Masters Review Anthology XI
"Tequendama Falls, or the Encroachment of Old Catastrophes"
Publication | Cutleaf Journal | Forthcoming, Spring 2025
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Publication | Cutleaf Reader Anthology (Easy Street Press) | Forthcoming
Publication | Ghost Parachute | December 2023
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 Workshop
Short Fiction | Shruti Swamy | Winter 2025
Tin House Workshop
Short Fiction | Lidia Yuknavitch | 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
Roots. Wounds. Words.
Fiction | Heat & Hustle Writing Group | August 2024
ONE Story Writing Circle
Fiction | January to December 2024
Residencies
Vermont Studio Center
Fiction | Vermont Week Fellow | Johnson, VT | May 2025
Ucross Foundation
Fiction Fellow | Clearmont, WY | June 2023
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Fiction Fellow | Amherst, VA | Fall 2023
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[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