My name is Lissa, and I am a poet.

I’m also a wife, dog momma, and for my day job… I work in insurance. As the office manager it’s up to me to make sure everyone — agent included! — gets things done.

I was born and raised in Oklahoma, and now I live just miles down the street from where I grew up. I’m a small-town girl, even though my town isn’t so small anymore.

I write poetry for a multitude of reasons. I grew up playing with poetry and wanting to be a novelist, but the more I tried novel-ing the more I began poet-ing instead. (I’m the odd one out in my writing group The Rabid Rainbow Ferret Society.) I like silly things. Dark things. Traditional things. Odd things. I grew up somewhere between Seuss and Poe, if that tells you anything about me.

I use this blog to chat about poetry and books in general, in addition to an assortment of other topics that catch my attention including snail mail/postcrossing, the KonMari method, and the Japanese language and culture. (I also love alliteration. And it happens all the time when I talk or write. Without trying. I’m going to blame Seuss for that one, but I’m okay with it.)

Interested in seeing where you can find my work? Pop on over to my Publications page.

* I try to post at least once a month just to keep some consistency around here, but sometimes there will be multiple posts in a single month and occasionally a month will slip by in silence. You just have to roll with how life works and sometimes that’s not always according to plan.

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