
Lisa’s debut novel, The Mother of All Calamities, was published March 2026, with Allen and Unwin. In 2023, Lisa won second prize in (ASSF), Emerging Writers’ Short Story Prize. She was shortlisted for the Peter Carey Award with Newton’s Cradle and shortlisted for Stringybark Short Story Award for Highly Flammable. In 2022, she won second prize in the Furphy Literary award for The Game and was a finalist in Newcastle Short Story Award with The Roundabout. In 2020, she published her first short story Estelle for the anthology Ordinary People. She currently co-hosts 3CR’s Published or Not.





