Lis Anna-Langston 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 until graduation and went on to study Literature at Webster University.
In 2023 she graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in creative writing.

She is a Parents’ Choice Gold winner, a three time NYC Big Book Award winner, Independent Press Award winner, a Moonbeam Book Award winner &
an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award winner.

Thrice nominated for the Pushcart Prize, she is a Finalist in the Brighthorse Book Prize, William Faulkner Fiction Award and the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award & was longlisted for the Lee Smith Novel Prize.
Her novels and screenplays have been optioned and  films screened worldwide.

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 Emerson Review.

She loves fireflies, French hip hop, Sunday mornings and the electric feeling of possibility.

She can  be found pretty much any day of the week
out in the wild plucking stories out of thin air.

Her books are available at all retailers in store and online.