Hailed as “an author with a genuine flair for originality”
by Midwest Book Review &
“a lovable, engaging, original voice…”
by Publishers Weekly,
Lis Anna-Langston is the award-winning author of
Skinny Dipping in a Dirty Pond, Gobbledy, Tupelo Honey, Maya Loop, Wild Asses of the Mojave Desert, and the short story collection Tolstoy & the Checkout Girl.

Descended from a long line of outlaws, hard truths,
and a grandmother who hated the roles society lays on people she was raised along the winding current of the Mississippi River on a steady diet of dog-eared books.
She attended a Creative and Performing Arts School from middle school through graduation, studied Literature at Webster University, completed coursework with the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville, & graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Creative Writing.

Her novels have won dozens of awards, including the
NYC Big Book Award, Independent Press Awards,
IBPA Award  & Parents’ Choice Awards.

A three-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her work has been published in a stack of literary journals including:
The Literary Review, The Merrimack Review,
Emrys Journal, The MacGuffin, Sand Hill Review,
The Brussels Review, Emerson Review, Hobart,
Barely South Review, Salvation South & Deep South Mag. 
Most of it award winning.
All of it unflinching.

Her novels and screenplays have been optioned &
films screened worldwide.

She loves to write fiction on fault lines—
places where borders meet, 
where memory collides with myth and breaks the silence. 

Survival is her love language.

You’ll find her any day of the week in the wilds of South Carolina, plucking stories from thin air.