Lisa Panepinto was born in Spokane in 1983. Her writing has appeared in The Glassblock, HEArt-Human Equity through Art, Maintenant, Pittsburgh City Paper, Red Flag Poetry, Yes, Poetry and more. She has served as a mentor and a senior companion with the United Way and as an AmeriCorps VISTA, and received the President’s Volunteer Service Award. Panepinto was poet-in-residence for the Maine Writing Project and led spoken word and poetry workshops for youth in foster care, teachers, and Maine-Wabanaki REACH allies. She is poetry editor for Cabildo Quarterly and author of On This Borrowed Bike, the chapbook Island Dreams,and, most recently, where i come from the fish have souls, published in 2019 by Spuyten Duyvil.