LISA MARIE
BASILE
Lisa Marie Basile is an author, poet, and journalist based in Jersey City, NJ/NYC. She is the author of a few books of poetry, including SAINT OF, Nympholespy (Inside the Castle, 2019, finalist in the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards), Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014), and Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York, 2012). She’s also written non-fiction, including Light Magic for Dark Times. She is the founding editor of Luna Luna Magazine. She holds an MFA in writing from The New School.Her essays, interviews, poetry, and other works can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Narratively, Tinderbox Poetry, Lover’s Eye Press, Sporklet, Best Small Fictions, and Best American Experimental Writing 2020.
SAINT OF
A gilded exploration of hunger—the hunger for the erotic, the ancestral, the forbidden, divinity, and hope. With themes of grief, illness, and generational trauma woven alongside sensuality and beauty, this collection is both sacrament and defiance. It traces the contours of longing, ruin, and transformation, blurring the boundaries between the carnal and the celestial. These poems are not only an invocation of saints—they are a declaration of self.
