Lisette Austin
@lisetteaustin.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Traveler, Adoptee.
Unearthing stories.
Reclaiming ancestral lineages.
Connecting history, place and identity.
#adopteevoices lisetteaustin.com
Unearthing stories.
Reclaiming ancestral lineages.
Connecting history, place and identity.
#adopteevoices lisetteaustin.com
Highly recommend this incredible book by my sister scribe @robinadavis.bsky.social l “Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris. ...It is a true story about a young, Black single woman and what happens when your Paris dream turns into a Paris nightmare."
Learn more: www.harpercollins.com/products/sur...
Learn more: www.harpercollins.com/products/sur...
October 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Highly recommend this incredible book by my sister scribe @robinadavis.bsky.social l “Surviving Paris is not Emily in Paris. ...It is a true story about a young, Black single woman and what happens when your Paris dream turns into a Paris nightmare."
Learn more: www.harpercollins.com/products/sur...
Learn more: www.harpercollins.com/products/sur...
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"The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world."
— Seamus Heaney
— Seamus Heaney
August 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
"The poet is on the side of undeceiving the world."
— Seamus Heaney
— Seamus Heaney
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I’m still alive. The earth is still alive. Language is still alive. If you can’t find any beauty where you are, you can still make it.
Took 20 years to get this story out. I hope you’ll read it 💙🩵
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...
Took 20 years to get this story out. I hope you’ll read it 💙🩵
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...
August 23, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I’m still alive. The earth is still alive. Language is still alive. If you can’t find any beauty where you are, you can still make it.
Took 20 years to get this story out. I hope you’ll read it 💙🩵
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...
Took 20 years to get this story out. I hope you’ll read it 💙🩵
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/khadi...
Thrilled to announce that I was selected as the recipient of the 2025-2026 Tahoma Literary Review Fellowship for MARS (Mineral Arts and Residencies). TLR will support a two-week writing residency that I will attend in April 2026. Thank you @tahomareview.bsky.social for this honor and your support!
Introducing Our Latest Traveler to MARS - Tahoma Literary Review
We are proud and excited to announce that Lisette Austin is the latest recipient of the Tahoma Literary Review Fellowship for MARS (Mineral Arts and
tahomaliteraryreview.com
August 9, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Thrilled to announce that I was selected as the recipient of the 2025-2026 Tahoma Literary Review Fellowship for MARS (Mineral Arts and Residencies). TLR will support a two-week writing residency that I will attend in April 2026. Thank you @tahomareview.bsky.social for this honor and your support!
Anyone who wants to learn more about Iran would do well to read this beautifully written and mesmerizing book by Kamin Mohammadi, one of my writing mentors and an expert on her country. Timely and important. I highly recommend.
www.kamin.co.uk/the-cypress-...
www.kamin.co.uk/the-cypress-...
July 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Anyone who wants to learn more about Iran would do well to read this beautifully written and mesmerizing book by Kamin Mohammadi, one of my writing mentors and an expert on her country. Timely and important. I highly recommend.
www.kamin.co.uk/the-cypress-...
www.kamin.co.uk/the-cypress-...
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This beauty by William Stafford:
July 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This beauty by William Stafford:
Reading a new poem, Namesake, at a beautiful evening of poetry and music hosted on April 30 by
@thelonesomepress.bsky.social. Such an honor to read amidst such talented artists, including NY Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones. 🙌🏾
@thelonesomepress.bsky.social. Such an honor to read amidst such talented artists, including NY Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones. 🙌🏾
May 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Reading a new poem, Namesake, at a beautiful evening of poetry and music hosted on April 30 by
@thelonesomepress.bsky.social. Such an honor to read amidst such talented artists, including NY Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones. 🙌🏾
@thelonesomepress.bsky.social. Such an honor to read amidst such talented artists, including NY Poet Laureate Patricia Spears Jones. 🙌🏾
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I'm stoked to have three news poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER 💭) in the stellar new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social, and here's one of them! Big thanks to editor Rob MacDonald!
(link to the whole issue 🌞 in comments)
(link to the whole issue 🌞 in comments)
April 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I'm stoked to have three news poems (from the forthcoming CLOUDWATCHER 💭) in the stellar new issue of @sixthfinch.bsky.social, and here's one of them! Big thanks to editor Rob MacDonald!
(link to the whole issue 🌞 in comments)
(link to the whole issue 🌞 in comments)
For those of you in NYC, I'm reading at this upcoming event on April 30 hosted by @thelonesomepress.bsky.social . Honored to be sharing the stage with Patricia Spears Jones, NY State Poet Laureate (nervous and excited!). RSVP: rsvp.neuehouse.com/lonesomepres...
April 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
For those of you in NYC, I'm reading at this upcoming event on April 30 hosted by @thelonesomepress.bsky.social . Honored to be sharing the stage with Patricia Spears Jones, NY State Poet Laureate (nervous and excited!). RSVP: rsvp.neuehouse.com/lonesomepres...
Sneaking in a little lunch and work between San Miguel Writer’s Conference sessions. #livingthedream #remotework 🇲🇽
February 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sneaking in a little lunch and work between San Miguel Writer’s Conference sessions. #livingthedream #remotework 🇲🇽
In San Miguel de Allende for the first time – to attend the 20th San Miguel Writers Conference. Starts tomorrow and I can’t WAIT. 🤩✨ #SMWC2025
February 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
In San Miguel de Allende for the first time – to attend the 20th San Miguel Writers Conference. Starts tomorrow and I can’t WAIT. 🤩✨ #SMWC2025
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Ahoy ahoy! Been a hot minute, and it's high time for fresh words.
Our eighty first issue is live. Tell your third most well-intentioned stranger.
www.roifaineantpress.com/blog
#writingcommunity
Our eighty first issue is live. Tell your third most well-intentioned stranger.
www.roifaineantpress.com/blog
#writingcommunity
January 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Ahoy ahoy! Been a hot minute, and it's high time for fresh words.
Our eighty first issue is live. Tell your third most well-intentioned stranger.
www.roifaineantpress.com/blog
#writingcommunity
Our eighty first issue is live. Tell your third most well-intentioned stranger.
www.roifaineantpress.com/blog
#writingcommunity
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Happened to come across this, may be useful if you are an artist (or know of one) impacted by the LA fires.
A List of Resources and How to Support Artists and Art Workers Affected by the Los Angeles Wildfires
This list of resources and donation opportunities supporting artists and art workers impacted by the L.A. wildfires will be updated as new initiatives emerge.
www.artsy.net
January 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Happened to come across this, may be useful if you are an artist (or know of one) impacted by the LA fires.
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Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
Charles Person, youngest of the Freedom Riders, dies at 82
Bruised and bloodied while traveling through the South in 1961, he challenged segregation on interstate buses and in terminal waiting rooms.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Charles Person, who was the youngest of the Freedom Riders in 1961, has passed away at age 82.
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
With his passing, Hank Thomas is the last remaining of the original Freedom Riders.
www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Business Insider asked me to write about packing to evacuate, how in that terrifying moment, all that mattered was finding the pictures of my birth mother. She died 29 years ago today, and today, they published the essay. Can't think of a better way to honor her than sharing this story. #LosAngeles
During the Los Angeles fires, I had minutes to pack my emergency bag. I took the few photos I have of my birth mother.
I only had a few minutes to pack my emergency bag when the LA fires crept close to my house. I had to pack photos of my birth mother, who I never met.
www.businessinsider.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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We made it through the longest night of the year. That’s not nothing! More light from now on. ✨
December 22, 2024 at 3:06 PM
We made it through the longest night of the year. That’s not nothing! More light from now on. ✨
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An amazing, true, & astonishingly written piece about Dorothy Allison by the wonderful Lily Burana.
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
The Queer Author Who Spoke the Plain Truth
Dorothy Allison, the Bastard Out of Carolina author who died last week, modeled the power of honesty in her writing and her life.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2024 at 4:18 PM
An amazing, true, & astonishingly written piece about Dorothy Allison by the wonderful Lily Burana.
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...