The Curious Universe Of

Lisa Mecham

Writer And Fiction Enthusiast

I am a voracious reader.

When I was little, my guilty pleasure was sneaking a flashlight into bed so that I could read way past "lights out."



Reading is like breathing to me, I'd have no life without it.

I am equally moved by fiction and non-fiction, longform and short stories.

Here is an ongoing list of what I've really liked recently.

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I have stories to tell.

If my high school math teacher had not also been my gym teacher, perhaps I could have become an architect.

Instead, I am following my dream to be a writer.

To the right are some of my recent adventures in writing and storytelling.

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Mercy

June 2012
WordPlaySound
An Audio Lit Magazine

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II

Reservoir

August 2012
Emerge Literary Journal

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III

A Strange Day

September 2012
Nib Magazine
Flash Fridays

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Storyteller

September 2012
The Monti
Hippo Award Nominee

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You Get What You Get

November 2012
The Drum Literary Magazine

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VI

Jetsam

January 2013
Chaparral

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VII

A Long Walk Through Belmont

Digital Americana
Spoken Word
March 2013

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VIII

AWP: My First Time

March 2013

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Editor Interviews

The Review Review

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I have always been fascinated by just about everything.


People, places, and ideas seem to float around me in a sea of random connectedness.

If I could have been a musician who writes about architecture while traveling around the world eating the best food on earth, I would have.

Instead — I just put what inspires me here on this Tumblr page. Enjoy.

About Lisa

A midwesterner at heart, Lisa Mecham lives in Los Angeles with her two daughters and the dog they suckered her into.

Lisa is pursuing a Certificate in Creative Writing from the UCLA Extension Writers' Program where she was nominated for the 2012 James Kirkwood Award. Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry has been published in WordPlaySound, Emerge Literary Journal, Nib Magazine, The Drum, Chaparral, and Digital Americana. Lisa was also an award nominated storyteller for the 2012-2013 Season Opener of The Monti. She is a reader for Tin House and contributes editor interviews to The Review Review.

Lisa is a slave to nostalgia and office supplies and when she isn't procrastinating, she's at work on her first novel under the mentorship of Jenna Johnson, Senior Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Fred Leebron of Queens University of Charlotte as part of the "One Book Semester" program.