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Hello,

I’m a writer based out of New York, NY. More than any one project, I aim to tell stories about passionate Asian women with complex family dynamics and internal struggles.

My essays have been featured in HuffPost, and my poems have been published in LIT Magazine.

Published Work

  • graphic of a hand holding a phone with an Asian woman dating app profile

    As An Asian American Woman, This Is The Dating App Red Flag I Don’t Talk About

    “There’s one thing I see over and over that fills me with an instinctual anxiety.”

  • Flowers and signs adorn Gold Spa in Atlanta, where people protested violence against women and Asians following the shootings that took eight lives

    I Laughed At The Jokes White People Made About Me. I'm No Longer Laughing.

    "These were my friends. Of course they weren’t racist. They were only kidding."

  • pink flowers in front of a beach backdrop

    Two Poems by Lisa Boyce

    “Feathers and Silk”

    and

    “Salt”

About Me

Lisa Boyce (she/her) is a New York-based writer with a Creative Writing MFA from The New School and an English degree from Princeton University. She is currently working on a novel about a biracial swimmer growing up in the Midwest—and procrastinating on her novel by baking for friends and practicing for future karaoke performances. Her essays have been featured in HuffPost, and her poems have been published in LIT Magazine.

Contact me.