LISA MARIE BASILE

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

She is the author of a few books of poetry, including a secret project set to publish in 2025, Nympholespy (Inside the Castle, 2019—which was a 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 a few non-fiction books, including Light Magic for Dark Times and others. 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, Bust, Entropy, Best American Poetry, and more. Portions of her work were also selected for inclusion in 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 presented her work at many literary series, including the Annual NYC Poetry Festival, NYC Writers Circle, Memoir Mondays, the Cornelia Street Reading Series, Weird Girls, 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 in panel discussions at/for 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 is a 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.