About
Lisa Bellamy is the author of the poetry collections Wonder Body (forthcoming 2027) and The Northway, and the 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.
She 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 and podcasts. "It's Only the End of the World," a UN Network on Migration exhibition, featured her poetry. Bellamy graduated from Princeton, where she studied religion and anthropology. She is a Tergar International meditation teacher student, under Yongey Mingyur RInpoche's direction, and plans to bring awareness practices to writing classes and creative groups. She was a research analyst for corporate and nonprofit organizations, most recently on the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church's staff, and now consults part-time. With her family, she lives in New Jersey and the Adirondacks. She is writing a book of 100-word fables, and researching American hermits and mystics for a new poetry collection.
Current recommended books: Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America; George M. Marsden, An Infinite Fountaion 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
About page: Wilmington Wild Forest, Adirondack Forest Preserve, Lisa Bellamy
She 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 and podcasts. "It's Only the End of the World," a UN Network on Migration exhibition, featured her poetry. Bellamy graduated from Princeton, where she studied religion and anthropology. She is a Tergar International meditation teacher student, under Yongey Mingyur RInpoche's direction, and plans to bring awareness practices to writing classes and creative groups. She was a research analyst for corporate and nonprofit organizations, most recently on the Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church's staff, and now consults part-time. With her family, she lives in New Jersey and the Adirondacks. She is writing a book of 100-word fables, and researching American hermits and mystics for a new poetry collection.
Current recommended books: Elizabeth Willis, Liontaming in America; George M. Marsden, An Infinite Fountaion 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
About page: Wilmington Wild Forest, Adirondack Forest Preserve, Lisa Bellamy
