BIO

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Lisa St. John is a writer living in the beautiful Hudson Valley of upstate New York. Her first chapbook, Ponderings, was published by Finishing Line Press. Lisa has published her poetry in 2Elizabeths, Albany PoetsBarbaric YawpMisfit MagazineThe Poet’s Billow,  PKA’s AdvocateThe Haight Ashbury Literary JournalThe Ekphrastic ReviewEyedrum PeriodicallyPoets Reading the NewsThe Poetry DistilleryLightEntropy, 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.  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. Lisa’s travel articles “The Calgary Stampede: The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth” and “Manhattan’s Lower East Side: The Big Onion” are published on GoNomad.com.  Her memoir excerpt, “I Still Exist,” was published by Grief Digest Magazine, and her essay, “DIY Apocalypse” was published in Sleet Magazine.

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