Lisa Romeo

Lisa Romeo is the author of Starting with Goodbye: A Daughter’s Memoir of Love after Loss (University of Nevada Press). Her short works have been listed in Best American Essays 2016 and 2018, and have been nominated several times for the Pushcart Prize. Lisa’s essays appear regularly in mainstream and literary media, including The New York Times, Brevity, Tiferet, Hippocampus, Full Grown People, Under the Gum Tree, The Manifest Station, O, The Oprah Magazine, and others, as well as in domestic and international equestrian publications. Her work has been featured in the anthologies Why We Ride, Women Writing on Family, Flash Nonfiction Food, Flash Nonfiction Funny, O’s Big Book of Happiness, and others.

Lisa is the craft essays editor for Cleaver Magazine, and was the founding creative nonfiction editor of Compose. She has taught at Rutgers University, Montclair State University, and The Writers Circle, and is the recipient of a scholarship from ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors), and a grant from the Vermont Studio Center. She edits manuscripts and works with writers on querying and the submission process.

Lisa holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Southern Maine's Stonecoast program and a BS in journalism from Syracuse University's Newhouse School. She lives in New Jersey with her family.

Please visit the MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing program page to learn about the curriculum, faculty, program options, and more.