| Conceived in New York City, born in Oklahoma,
and raised in Detroit, Lisa Lenzo now lives in southwestern Michigan, where she drives and dispatches for the local bus company and writes.
Lenzo's story collection, Within the Lighted City, was chosen by Ann Beattie for The 1997 John Simmons Short Fiction Award and published by
the University of Iowa Press. Her fiction has appeared in many literary magazines, including Michigan Quarterly Review, Alaska Quarterly
Review, Third Coast, and The New England Review, and has been anthologized in The Iowa Award: The Best Stories, 1991-2000 and Birth:
A Literary Guide (Univ. of Iowa Press) Sacred Ground: Stories About Home (Milkweed Editions) and The Italian-American Reader (William
Morrow). One of Lenzo's stories won a Hemingway Days Award and another was chosen for a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award and read on NPR.
Her essay "Bodies of Water" was published in the anthology Fresh Water: Women Writing On The Great Lakes (MSU Press), which was chosen
as a Michigan Notable Book for 2007. She has stories forthcoming in Mourning Sickness, an anthology from Omni Arts, and in the current
issue of The Mississippi Review. Recently she has finished a memoir, Hadley Hills.
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