Lisa Mecham is an artist living in California. Through writing, editing and cultural curation, she creates opportunities for transformation—both personal and collective—where we confront the parts of ourselves we’ve hidden away.
Lisa’s work has appeared in publications such as The New York Times: Tiny Modern Love, Roxane Gay’s bestselling anthology Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture and Huffpost Personal where her essay about ending her marriage went viral. She’s served as a Senior Features Editor for The Rumpus and now works as a freelance editor, helping writers bring what’s in their head and heart fully onto the page.
Lisa’s work explores what shame has silenced, offering others permission to do the same. She’s drawn to thresholds—between logic and magic, wildness and restraint, seeming and being—and believes in the power of language to reveal our truest selves.
Lisa is finishing a book about what happens to a family when mental illness is hidden beneath the veneer of suburban perfection and editing an anthology, Happy After: Women Thriving In Divorce. She curates Finding Judy, a digital archive project honoring the life and work of Judith Shahn—a prolific yet often overlooked artist. In addition, she runs Soul Land, an artist residency in the Mojave Desert, that invites writers to reenage with their creative work.
Represented by Sarah Bowlin /Aevitas Creative
Author photo by Elena Ray
Website images courtesy of Amy Bennett and Gallery Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm
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