LISA MARIE BASILE

Lisa Marie Basile is an author, poet, and journalist based in Jersey City, NJ and NYC. She holds an MFA in writing from The New School.

She is the author of a few books of poetry, including SAINT OF (White Stag Publishing, 2025), Nympholespy (Inside the Castle, 2019, finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards), Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014), and Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York, 2012). She’s also written non-fiction, including Light Magic for Dark Times. She is the founding editor of Luna Luna Magazine.

Her essays, interviews, poetry, and other works can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Narratively, Tinderbox Poetry, Lover’s Eye Press, Sporklet (edited by Richard Siken), Best Small Fictions (selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler), and Best American Experimental Writing 2020 (selected by Carmen Maria Machado and Joyelle McSweeney).

Lisa Marie has read at many literary series and literary establishments, including the Annual NYC Poetry Festival, NYC Writers Circle, Memoir Mondays, the Cornelia Street Reading Series, Franklin Park, Must Love Memoir, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, McNally Jackson, and the KGB Reading Series, among many others. She has also led workshops or spoken at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, Emerson College, Pace University, The Moon Studio, The Author’s Guild, Stanza Books, and more.

As a health journalist, community moderator, and patient advocate, her work can be found in Healthline, HealthCentral, Sleep Foundation, WebMD, GoodRx, and more. She served on the Leadership Council member at Health Union/WeGo Health, where she was also a 2022 awards finalist for her research and creative work in health advocacy.