Kyra Lisse
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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. In the years before Kyra joined the Yetzirah team as program coordinator & conference director, she served as assistant managing editor at Ayin Press, associate 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, 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, miniatures, and writing itself. A member of the 2025 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference cohort, Kyra currently lives in Lancaster, PA and is at work on a memoir.