FOUNDING EDITOR

Lisa Marie Basile is an NYC-based author and poet, and the founding editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine.

She is also the author of a few books of poetry, including SAINT OF (White Stag Publishing, 2025), Nympholespy (Inside the Castle, 2019, which was a finalist for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards), Apocryphal (Noctuary Press, 2014), and Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York, 2012). She’s also written non-fiction books, including Light Magic for Dark Times. She is currently working on a lyrical memoir—a fever dream bildungsroman exploring a late girlhood in foster care.

Her essays, interviews, poetry, and other works can be found in The New York Times, Catapult, Narratively, Tinderbox Poetry, Lover’s Eye Press, Tin House, The Account, Best American Poetry, Sporklet (edited by Richard Siken), Best Small Fictions (selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler), and Best American Experimental Writing 2020 (selected by Carmen Maria Machado and Joyelle McSweeney).

Lisa Marie has read at many literary series and venues, including the Annual NYC Poetry Festival, NYC Writers Circle, The New York Public Library, Memoir Mondays, the Cornelia Street Reading Series, Franklin Park, Must Love Memoir, Berl's Brooklyn Poetry Shop, McNally Jackson, and the KGB Reading Series, among many others.

She has spoken at or led workshops at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, Emerson College, Pace University, The Jersey City Public Library, The Moon Studio, The Author’s Guild, Stanza Books, Astrolushes, Brooklyn Brainery, The Poetry Society of New York, and more. She leads seasonal and themed writing workshops and is co-guiding, for the second year, a writing immersion in Palermo, Sicily with the organization Radici Siciliane. 

Lisa is a foster youth awareness and chronic illness advocate. Follow her on Instagram here, and subscribe to her Substack, I Remember Eternity.

former editors, collaborators, & curators over the years

• Joanna C. Valente (read works)

• Monique Quintana (read works)

• Nadia Gerassimenko (read works)

• Kailey Tedesco (read works)

• Trista Edwards (read works)

• Tiffany Sciacca (read works)

• Lydia A. Cyrus (read works)

• Cee Martinez (read works)

• Rena Medow (read works)

• Nina Morena (read works)

• Aurora Rose De Crosta (see works)

• Leza Cantoral (read works)

• Tabitha Dial (read works)

• Patricia Grisafi (read works)

• Emma Ramos (read works)

• Liz Axelrod (read works)

• Laura Delarato (read works)

• Dallas Athent (read works)