Introducing Our Latest Traveler to MARS

We are proud and excited to announce that Lisette Austin is the latest recipient of the Tahoma Literary Review Fellowship for MARS (Mineral Arts and Residencies). TLR will support a two-week residency for Lisette in Mineral, Washington.

Lisette Austin is a Black biracial writer, podcaster and adoptee. Her writing explores the unacknowledged impacts of closed adoption, her experiences reuniting with biological family, and reclamation of ancestral lineages. Lisette currently studies writing at Brooklyn Poets, Hugo House and StoryStudio Chicago, and is a member of The Sanctuary, an online community for BIPOC women writers. Her poems have appeared in Raven Chronicles and Lonesome, and an essay on DNA travel was published in Go Girl 2, The Black Woman’s Book of Travel and Adventure. She spent multiple years volunteering for the Pongo Poetry Project, serving as poetry mentor for incarcerated youth.

Lisette lives and writes in the Seattle area and frequently travels to the places her biological ancestors were from.

The Tahoma Literary Review Fellowship supports at least one artist per year to attend MARS. The fellowship relies in part on contributions from our readers and writers. Any donated amount helps.

Congratulations, Lisette!