Fiction
Lisa is an MFA candidate in Fiction at the prestigious Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, where she is an Inprint Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Fellow as well as a Cynthia Woods Mitchell Scholar.
She is at work on her first book.
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
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
CRIT Workshop
Fiction | Tony Tulathimutte | Spring 2023
Residencies
Writers' Center 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
Fiction Workshop | Houston, TX | Spring 2023 (Upcoming)
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