| Lisa
Lenzo is the author of three award-winning story collections: Unblinking,
published by Wayne State University Press and the 2020 Midwest Book Award
Winner for Short Story Collection/Anthology as well as a two-time finalist
for the 2020 Next Generation Indie Awards; Strange Love, a novel-in-stories
also published by WSUP and the recipient of a 2015 Michigan Notable Book
Award as well as a finalist for three national awards; and Within the
Lighted City, chosen for the 1997 John Simmons Short Fiction Award
and published by the University of Iowa Press. Other honors include a
Hemingway Days Festival Award, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Project Award,
and seven Finalists and Honorable Mentions in story contests sponsored
by The Missouri Review, The Bellevue Review, The Philadelphia
Review, and Glimmer Train. Raised in Detroit, Lisa is a graduate
of the MFA writing program at Western Michigan University. She has recently
finished a novel, Before the Revolution. |
