Lissa Kiernan, Founding Director
Lissa Kiernan’s first book of prose, Glass Needles & Goose Quills won the Nautilus Gold Prize for Lyric Prose and the Independent Book Awards Prize in the cross-genre category. Her first collection of poetry, Two Faint Lines in the Violet, was a finalist for the Julie Suk Award and Indiefab Book of the Year. She holds an MFA from the Stonecoast Program in Creative Writing and an MA from The New School in New York City. She lives in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains, with her husband and a fluctuating number of felines.