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Biography
Kyra Lisse is a writer and editor from the Philadelphia area. In 2022, she graduated summa cum laude from Franklin & Marshall College, where she studied creative writing and Latin; and in 2024, she received her MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. Before Kyra was hired as assistant managing editor at Ayin Press, she served as an editor at Jewish Book Council and as a nonfiction reader for Orison Books. Her nonfiction and poetry have been published in or are forthcoming from Ghost City Review, Sky Island Journal, New Voices, SWWIM, HAD, Sinister Wisdom, and Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, among other places. Kyra has been twice-nominated for AWP’s Intro Journals Project, and she was a finalist for Hey Alma’s inaugural fiction contest (2024) and the Brink Literary Journal Emerging Writer Fellowship in Hybrid Writing (2024). Kyra writes essays and poems about the body, the mother-daughter relationship, Jewishness, sexuality, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, dolls, and writing itself. A member of the 2025 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference cohort, Kyra currently lives in Lancaster, PA.
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