Lisa Wells

Lisa Wells is the author of two poetry collections The Fire Passage, a 2026 Oregon Book Award finalists and winner of the Levis Poetry Prize and The Fix, winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her book Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2021 and was a finalist for the 2022 PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. She lives in Portland.

Lisa Wells