Lisa Ludden explores multiple genres of writing: poetry, fiction, essays, and plays. In 2018 her poem “How is Home” was a finalist for the Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize judged by Naomi Shihab Nye, and in 2016 she was finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards. Her poems are forthcoming in Interim, Common Ground Review, Permafrost, and have been featured in The Normal School, Epiphany Magazine, 580 Split, Unbroken Journal, Stonecoast Review, Tule Review, Natural Bridge, LUMINA Online, Caesura, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, MockingHeart Review, The Indianola Review, Mudfish, and others. Her chapbook, Palebound, was published by Flutter Press, 2017. In September 2014, Lisa wrote with the 30/30 Project with Tupelo Press. She holds an MFA from Saint Mary's College of California and a BA in English from San Francisco State University. In 2007-8 she was a member of Playground SF's Writers Pool, where she had three short plays staged, Notes Float in on Silenced Mouths, Infinitesimal and The Plant Play. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her husband and their two children.