About
Lisa Bellamy is the author of the poetry collections Wonder Body (forthcoming 2027) and The Northway, and chapbooks Bee Frequency (forthcoming 2026) and Nectar. She writes poetry and short prose, teaches at The Writers Studio, and studied with Philip Schultz, the school's founder and director.
Bellamy has received two Pushcart Prizes, a Fugue Poetry Prize and a Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Special Mention. Her work was selected for The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and Prose, and appears in literary journals, podcasts, and "It's Only the End of the World," a UN Network on Migration multi-media climate change exhibition. She is writing a children's fable book and researching American mavericks, eccentrics, hermits, and mystics for a new poetry collection.
She graduated from Princeton, where she studied religion and anthropology, and in 2026 completed Tergar International's secular meditation teacher program, under Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's direction. She plans to bring that work to writing classes and groups. A former investigative and research analyst, most recently on the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church's staff, she now consults part-time and, with her husband and family, lives in New Jersey and the Adirondack High Peaks.
Recommended books: Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America; George M. Marsden, An Infinite Fountain of Light: Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century; The Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche, Meditation for Modern Madness.
Photo credits:
Home page: Colorado River, Grand Canyon, copyright Peter Bellamy 2026
www.instagram.com/peterbellamy6800/
About page: Wilmington Wild Forest, Adirondack Forest Preserve, Lisa Bellamy
Bellamy has received two Pushcart Prizes, a Fugue Poetry Prize and a Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Special Mention. Her work was selected for The Pushcart Book of Twenty-First Century Poetry and Prose, and appears in literary journals, podcasts, and "It's Only the End of the World," a UN Network on Migration multi-media climate change exhibition. She is writing a children's fable book and researching American mavericks, eccentrics, hermits, and mystics for a new poetry collection.
She graduated from Princeton, where she studied religion and anthropology, and in 2026 completed Tergar International's secular meditation teacher program, under Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's direction. She plans to bring that work to writing classes and groups. A former investigative and research analyst, most recently on the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church's staff, she now consults part-time and, with her husband and family, lives in New Jersey and the Adirondack High Peaks.
Recommended books: Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America; George M. Marsden, An Infinite Fountain of Light: Jonathan Edwards for the Twenty-First Century; The Seventh Dzogchen Rinpoche, Meditation for Modern Madness.
Photo credits:
Home page: Colorado River, Grand Canyon, copyright Peter Bellamy 2026
www.instagram.com/peterbellamy6800/
About page: Wilmington Wild Forest, Adirondack Forest Preserve, Lisa Bellamy
