Lisa Locascio

Lisa Locascio was born in 1984 and raised in River Forest, Illinois. She has received a BA in Individualized Study and an MFA in fiction from New York University. Lisa has received fellowships from Western Michigan University, New York University, the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and the University of Southern California, where, this fall, she will begin the PhD in Literature & Creative Writing as the Virginia C. Middleton fellow. She is at work on her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Peculiar Qualifications. Her writing has appeared in the Northwest Review, the Minetta Review, Prairie Margins, and Lake Affect.