Lisa Wiley

Poet

Buffalo, NY
New York US
Email: 
moslow@ecc.edu
Twitter/X: 
@wileymoz

Author's Bio

Lisa Wiley is a professor of English at SUNY Erie Communty College, North Campus in Buffalo, NY where she edits The Pandemic Project and teaches composition, literature, and creative writing. She lives with her husband, son, and yellow lab rescue Zoey.

Writers Retreats: 
New York State Summer Writers Institute
Southampton Writers Conference

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Resurrection of a Sunflower (Pski’s Porch Publishing, 2017)
,
Nancy Drew Anthology (Silver Birch Press, 2016)
Chapbooks:
Eat Cake for Breakfast (Dancing Girl Press, Chicago, 2021)
,
Big Apple Rain (The Writer's Den, 2018)
,
My Daughter Wears Her Evil Eye to School (The Writer's Den, 2015)
,
Chamber Music (Finishing Line Press, 2013)
Journals:
Autumn Sky Poetry Daily
,
Blue Heron Review
,
Chest
,
Chronogram
,
Earth's Daughters
,
Feile-Festa
,
Fictive Dream
,
Flash Fiction Magazine
,
Flash Frontier
,
Glimpse
,
Healing Muse
,
Juniper - A Poetry Journal
,
Medical Journal of Australia
,
Mom Egg Review
,
Mothers Always Write
,
Off the Coast
,
Peach Mag
,
Red Booth Review
,
Rockhurst Review
,
San Pedro River Review
,
Seven Circles Press
,
Snapdragon
,
Sonic Boom
,
SWWIM Every Day
,
The Comstock Review
,
The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine
,
Thimble Literary Magazine
,
Third Wednesday
,
Tiny Spoon
,
Verse-Virtual
Prizes won: 

London Independent Story Prize 2024 Finalist flash fiction;

Tiny Spoon Erasure Contest 2019 Honorable Mention;

Just Buffalo Members' Contest 2017 Audience Prize Honorable Mention

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
The Neopolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante, Lit by Mary Karr

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Buffalo, NY
New York
Raised in: 
Buffalo, NY
New York
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Last update: Jul 12, 2025