in the news & media

  • Presenting at AWP Seattle: March 8-11, 2023

    Full event schedule located at the official AWP website.

  • Reading at LitHop 2022

    Featuring poets Von Torres, Joseph Rios, and Janice Lobo Sapigao on Saturday, October 15, 2022. Full literary festival schedule and lineup here.

  • Reading with Suzanne Roberts

    Live in-person reading with Suzanne Roberts, author of Animal Bodies (University of Nebraska Press) on Thursday, September 22, 2022. Details here.

  • Reading with Joe Vadi, Romeo Guzman, and Michael Torres

    Part of the Writing Home: Pomona Voices tour on Thursday, July 7, 2022, also feat. Sara Borjas and Joseph Rios. Details here.

  • Reading With Mai Der Vang

    A virtual online discussion about literary advocacy, hosted by Central California Asian Pacific Women (CCAPW), headquartered in Fresno, CA, on Saturday, January 29, 2022. Details here.

  • PBS NewsHour Interview

    —In December 2020, the Hmong New Year Festival in Fresno was cancelled for the first time since its inception nearly 40 years ago. In 2021, organizers brought it back. Lisa shares insights into the cultural festival and tradition here. (Published December 29, 2021)

  • Interview with courtney maum for the mount - edith wharton's house

    —A one-hour conversation with author Courtney Maum, author of Before and After The Book Deal (Catapult), on the importance of family traditions and cultural writing. Watch it here.

  • Interview on The PEN 10

    —What to read when you’re writing about reading and vice versa, and more. Read the full interviews at PEN America’s weekly interview series here.

  • "These essays of startling range and vision provide new ways of thinking about these essential quandaries of our age."

    — Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing 2021. Full announcement here.

  • Official announcement from PEN America regarding the awardees of the 2021 Emerging voices fellowships.

    —PEN America: the 2021 fellows were selected by Eloisa Amezcua (Costura Creative), Dan Smetanka (Counterpoint Press), Erin Harris (Folio Literary Management), Christopher Gonzalez (Barrelhouse), and Lauren Michele Jackson (The New Yorker). See the announcement from Poets & Writers Magazine in the September/October 2021 issue.

  • “Lisa Lee Herrick challenges the resurgence of dangerous historical frames of race and belonging . . . ”

    — Literary Hub (May 26, 2020)

  • "Incredible . . . "

    — Wendy Chin-Tanner, novelist and co-publisher of A Wave Blue World

  • " . . . pays homage to the resilience of the hmong people [and] their ability to maintain identity . . . "

    — Alice Daniel, Valley Public Radio New (NPR)

  • Interview with wexl podcast.

    —June 2021: listen here.

  • Interview with the california arts council.

    —via the California Arts Council’s blog on Medium.com

  • Interview with the fresno bee.

    —now available on FresnoBee.com

  • Interview on storycorps.

    —now available on StoryCorps here.

  • watch the documentary film, the hmong and the secret war—which i co-presented on the only BIPOC panel at a national summit for military veterans television programming—on pbs.

    —Now available online for FREE at PBS.org

  • the rumpus editors' recommended reading and staff favorites list.

    — February 2020, December 2018, and June 2018.

As Seen In Logo Wall: Foreign Bodies, Memoir Monday, Fresno County Public Library, California Arts Council, StoryCorps, Literary Hub, LitHop, The Fresno Bee, The Mount - Edith Wharton's House, The Houston Chronicle, PBS, PBS NewsHour, NPR, MSN, etc.

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