photo by Romy Maxime
Liza St. James is a writer, translator, and editor from San Francisco. Her work has appeared in various publications internationally, and her writing has been supported by residencies and fellowships from the University of the Arts Helsinki, the School for Poetic Computation, the Spruceton Inn, the Gullkistan Center, the Catwalk Institute, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, Art Farm Nebraska, and Columbia University, where she was a teaching fellow in the Undergraduate Writing Program. She has taught writing at Columbia University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Queensboro Correctional Facility, San Quentin State Prison, and Cooper Union, where she is currently a writing fellow in the School of Art. A former editor at Transit Books, she is a contributing editor at BOMB and a senior editor of the literary annual NOON. She lives in New York.
Contact: lizastjames@gmail.com
Representation: Seren Adams at United Agents.