Lissa Kiernan

Poet, writer, educator.

I’m the author of two books, Glass Needles & Goose Quills (Haley’s, 2018) and Two Faint Lines in the Violet, (Negative Capability Press, 2014), a Foreword Reviews' 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Finalist, as well as a finalist for the 2014 Julie Suk Award for Best Poetry Book by an Independent Press. Select poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. I founded and teach for the Poetry Barn, a literary center based in New York's Hudson Valley. 

Along with my MFA from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine, I hold an MA in Media Studies from The New School. 

I build, manage, and maintain websites, with an emphasis on literary, arts, and nonprofit sites.

My husband Chris and I herd cats in West Hurley, NY.