Lisa C. Taylor

Lisa C. Taylor’s first novel, The Shape of What Remains releases with Liminal Books on February 18, 2025. Her previous publications include the poetry collection, Interrogation of Morning (2022), the short story collection, Impossibly Small Spaces released by Arlen House/Syracuse University Press in 2018, the short story collection, Growing a New Tail, and two additional poetry collections, Necessary Silence (2013) and The Other Side of Longing (2011), a collaborative collection with Irish poet and writer Geraldine Mills. She also has two poetry chapbooks. Taylor’s poetry, fiction, and nonfiction has been widely published in national and international journals, magazines, and anthologies. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both fiction and poetry, she also garnered Best-of-the-Net nominations in both categories. Lisa won the Hugo House New Works Fiction Award in 2015 and was a spotlight feature on the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) web site and a two-time mentor in their writer-to-writer program. Taylor holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stonecoast at The University of Southern Maine, teaches online and facilitates workshops around the country at writers’ conferences and schools and is the co-director of the Mesa Verde Writers Conference and Literary Festival.