Lisa Allen is the author of the poetry collection
It’s What I’ve Got Left, published by Lily Poetry Review Press (2026)
and co-founder and co-director, with poet Rebecca Connors,
of the online creative space The Notebooks Collective.

Order a copy of It’s What I’ve Got Left here.

Her poetry has been published in The Bacopa Literary Review
(2018 and 2019, discussed here by Editor Kaye Linden),
the anthology Feckless Cunt (World Split Open Press, 2018,
read by Susan Rukeyser on the podcast Desert Lady Diaries),
Lily Poetry Review (print 2019, online 2020),
December Magazine (2020), Pinch, MER, Anti-Herion Chic,
and others.

Her essays have been published in Listen to Your Mother:
What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now (Putnam, 2015),
3Elements Review (2019), Dine: An Anthology
(Books by Hippocampus, 2020), Midway Journal (2019),
and Essay Daily.

She has been nominated numerous times for the Pushcart Prize
and Best of the Net and was a 2022 Best of the Net finalist
for the poem “Prolapse: Etymology,” published by South 85 Journal. 

She holds two MFA degrees (Creative Nonfiction and Poetry),
both from the Solstice MFA Program in Creative Writing
at Pine Manor College, where she was a Michael Steinberg fellow
in Creative Nonfiction.