Lyzette Wanzer is a native New Yorker currently residing in San Francisco. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Potomac Review, Callaloo, Tampa Review, Pleiades, West Wind Review, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Yalobusha Review, The Healing Muse, Illumen, Specs, Philament, Iris: A Journal About Women, Apalachee Review, Bryant Literary Review, artisan, a journal of craft, Curious Rooms, AIM Magazine, and Gender On Our Minds. She is a winner in San Francisco’s 2009 and 2010 Annual Soulmaking Literary Awards and the southeast region’s 2005 Porter Fleming Writing Competition, in the short fiction category. She was named a 2004 Fulbright Finalist in Literature, and was a 2004 finalist in the National League of American Pen Women’s literature grant competition. In 2003 she won $1000 in a National Scholarship essay contest sponsored by the Mensa Education and Research Foundation. She has received writing residencies at the Blue Mountain Center (NY) and Kimmel Harding Center for the Arts (NE). Ms. Wanzer is also a literary event producer. In 2007 and 2009, she produced literary event panels at the Main branch of the San Francisco Public Library. The 2009 event, called Festival of Shorts!, focused on the sudden fiction form. Ms. Wanzer has presented her work and served as fiction panel Chair at the Popular & American Culture Association (CA), 20th Century Languages and Literature (KY), Sigma Tau Delta (OR), the College English Association (TX), and Women, Gender and Sexuality (CA) conferences, (dis)junctions: Malappropriation Nation (CA). In March 2010, she presented both fiction and essays at the Popular Culture Association national conference in St. Louis.

Aesthetica (Aesthetica Magazine Ltd., 2010), Gender On Our Minds (Khoi Nguyen, 2008)

Apalachee Review, Bryant Literary Review, Callaloo, flashquake, Glossolalia, Illumen, Iris, Journal of Experimental Fiction, Pacific Review, Pleiades, Potomac Review, Specs Magazine, Tampa Review, West Wind Review, Yalobusha Review