bio

Lisa Wells is the author of Believers, a 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 is forthcoming from Four Way Books in 2025.

Her essays have been published in Harper’s Magazine, Granta, N+1, The New York Times, and anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing 2022 and The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with the writer Joshua Marie Wilkinson and their son. Together they serve as editors for The Kuhl House Poets series at the University of Iowa Press.