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 Community College, North Campus in Buffalo, NY where she co-edited 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:
North Coast Voices (Main Street Rag, 2026)
,
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
,
Ink In Thirds
,
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 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
,
The New York Times
,
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

Favorite authors: 
Toni Morrison Mary Karr Ernest Hemingway Harper Lee
What I'm reading now: 
The Neopolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante

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: Sep 22, 2025