Lia Greenwell is an essayist and poet currently at work on a book of nonfiction about fear, addiction, compassion, and punishment in the aftermath of a carjacking.

Her work has appeared in the Kenyon Review Online, Missouri Review, Waxwing, and the Southern Humanities Review, where it was nominated for a Pushcart prize, among other publications. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has received scholarships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Lia has taught creative writing to high school and college students through the Girls Write Now program in New York City and as the Joan Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellow at Warren Wilson College. She lives in Detroit, Michigan, where she works with InsideOut Literary Arts.