Lisa Graley

Lisa Graley
  • Faculty
  • Associate Professor in English and Humanities

Biography

Lisa Graley coordinates the interdisciplinary humanities program. She is the author of the story collection The Current That Carries (2016), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, and Box of Blue Horses (2013), winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award. She has published in Glimmer Train Stories, The Georgia Review, and The McNeese Review. She received an Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, an ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents, and was awarded the Dr. Ray Authement Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010.

Education

Ph.D., 1998
University of Louisiana at 色妹AV

M.F.A in Creative Writing, 1995
McNeese State University

M.A., 1995
McNeese State University

Bachelor's in Journalism, 1984
Marshall University
 

Student Research/Collaboration

  • Humanities
  • Medicine and disease
  • Modern literature
  • American literature
  • Creative writing

Publications

  • The Current That Carries. Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. Winner of the 2015 Flannery O鈥機onnor Award for Short Fiction.
  • Box of Blue Horses. Arlington, Va: Gival Press, 2013. Winner of 2012 Gival Press Poetry Competition.
  • 鈥淭he Sorrows You Can鈥檛 Enter.鈥 The Georgia Review. 69 (2015): 625-639.
  • 鈥淔eeding Instructions.鈥 The McNeese Review. 49 (2011): 111-132.
  • 鈥淰andalism.鈥 Glimmer Train Stories. 72 (2009): 161-183.

Awards & Recognition

  • Flannery O鈥機onnor Award for Short Stories for The Current That Carries. The University of Georgia Press. 2015.
  • Faculty Travel Grant, Univ. of Louisiana 色妹AV for presentation at the Humanities Education and Research Conference, San Francisco, April 2015.
  • Honorable Mention, Poetry, New England Festival of Books for Box of Blue Horses.   2014.
  • Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Award for Independent Books for Box of Blue Horses, 2014.
  • Ray Authement Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
  • ATLAS 鈥 Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars, state-awarded, one-year paid sabbatical for work on collection of short stories, funding by the Louisiana Board of Regents. 2009-2010.
  • Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship Award with a $5,000 stipend for creative fiction, funded by Louisiana Endowment for the Arts, 2001.
  • University Graduate Fellowship, Univ. of Louisiana at 色妹AV, 1995-98.
  • Graduate Foundation Fellowship, McNeese State University, 1994-95.