Lisa Levy

Lisa Levy has been a freelance writer and editor for almost 20 years, focusing on essays, criticism, books and writers, feminism, and selfhood. She has written for many publications, including the New Republic, the LARB, the Believer, the Millions, the Rumpus, TLS, Hazlitt, the CBC, Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, and Lit Hub, where she is a contributing editor. She is also a contributing editor and columnist at Lit Hub’s sister site Crime Reads; formerly, she was Noir and Mystery editor at the LA Review of Books and started crime coverage at Literary Hub. Lisa is working toward a nonfiction MFA at Goucher College; she is writing a book of linked essays about famous migraineurs, the culture of chronic and invisible pain, and the relationship between illness and progressive time. A longtime New Yorker now based in Toronto, she teaches at Sackett Street Writers and Writing Workshop.