Lisa Graley

Lisa Graley coordinates the interdisciplinary humanities program. She is the author of the story collection The Current That Carries (2016), winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, and Box of Blue Horses (2013), winner of the Gival Press Poetry Award. She has published in Glimmer Train Stories, The Georgia Review, and The McNeese Review. She received an Artist Fellowship from the Louisiana Division of the Arts, an ATLAS grant from the Louisiana Board of Regents, and was awarded the Dr. Ray Authement Excellence in Teaching Award in 2010.

Ph.D., 1998
University of Louisiana at Lafayette

M.F.A in Creative Writing, 1995
McNeese State University

M.A., 1995
McNeese State University

Bachelor's in Journalism, 1984
Marshall University
 

• Humanities
• Medicine and disease
• Modern literature
• American literature
• Creative writing

• The Current That Carries. Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 2016. Winner of the 2015 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.
• Box of Blue Horses. Arlington, Va: Gival Press, 2013. Winner of 2012 Gival Press Poetry Competition.
• “The Sorrows You Can’t Enter.” The Georgia Review. 69 (2015): 625-639.
• “Feeding Instructions.” The McNeese Review. 49 (2011): 111-132.
• “Vandalism.” Glimmer Train Stories. 72 (2009): 161-183.

• Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Stories for The Current That Carries. The University of Georgia Press. 2015.
• Faculty Travel Grant, Univ. of Louisiana Lafayette for presentation at the Humanities Education and Research Conference, San Francisco, April 2015.
• Honorable Mention, Poetry, New England Festival of Books for Box of Blue Horses.   2014.
• Honorable Mention, Eric Hoffer Award for Independent Books for Box of Blue Horses, 2014.
• Ray Authement Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
• ATLAS – Awards to Louisiana Artists and Scholars, state-awarded, one-year paid sabbatical for work on collection of short stories, funding by the Louisiana Board of Regents. 2009-2010.
• Division of the Arts Artist Fellowship Award with a $5,000 stipend for creative fiction, funded by Louisiana Endowment for the Arts, 2001.
• University Graduate Fellowship, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, 1995-98.
• Graduate Foundation Fellowship, McNeese State University, 1994-95.