Lisa Zerkle is a poet and editor in Charlotte. She is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. As the creator and curator of 4X4CLT, a public art and poetry broadside and reading series for Charlotte Lit, she published work by Ada Limón, Terrance Hayes, Matthew Olzmann, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, and others. She serves as a senior editor for Painted Bride Quarterly, podcast coordinator for PBQ’s Slush Pile, and as an editor for Iron Oak Editions.
Selected work
Dear Future Overlords (Gingko)
Rowan Glassworks, 2026
Dust. Sunlight. A Singing Bird.
Loblolly Press, 2026
The Smell of Formaldehyde Makes You Hungry
The Unjournals, 2026
Debut
Whale Road Review, 2026
My Son in the Sea by Lisa Zerkle
Apple Podcasts, 2025
High Sierra Incantation
Glass: A Journal of Poetry, 2025
Long Distance
Raleigh Review, 2025
Self-Portrait as Ursa Major
Rogue Agent, 2025
Why I'll Never Make it as a Witch
Croak, 2025
“The Rhapsody of Things as They Are”: Unabridged Truth in Diane Seuss’s Modern Poetry
West Trade Review, 2025
Denise
Quartet Journal, 2023
Two poems
Reverie , 2024
I'm Stopped by the Black Pearl of Her
Heavy Feather Review, 2023
Incantation (Avian/Reptilian)
Blue Bottle Journal, 2023
Again the Spider
LEON Literary Review, 2020
Relics of the Great Acceleration
storySouth, 2017
My Son in the Sea
The Collagist, 2015

