About
Lisa Bellamy is the author of two 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 climate change exhibition. She graduated from Princeton, where she studied religion and anthropology, and completed Tergar International's meditation teacher program, under Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's direction. She brings that work to writing classes and other groups. A former research analyst, most recently on the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church's staff, Bellamy consults part-time for nonprofit organizations and lives in New Jersey and the Adirondack High Peaks with her family.
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 climate change exhibition. She graduated from Princeton, where she studied religion and anthropology, and completed Tergar International's meditation teacher program, under Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche's direction. She brings that work to writing classes and other groups. A former research analyst, most recently on the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church's staff, Bellamy consults part-time for nonprofit organizations and lives in New Jersey and the Adirondack High Peaks with her family.
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
