Lisa Wells is the author of Believersa finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Her debut collection of poetry, The Fix, won the Iowa Poetry Prize. A new book, The Fire Passage, was selected by Diane Seuss for the Levis Prize in Poetry and will be published by Four Way Books in 2025.

Her essays have been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, N+1, The New York Times, The Best American Science & Nature Writing, and The Best American Food and Travel Writing. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with the writer Joshua Marie Wilkinson and helps edit the Kuhl House Poets Series.