Marisa Lainson

Marisa Lainson is a poet from Southern California. She recently earned her MFA from the University of California, Irvine, where she served as Poetry Editor of Faultline Journal of Arts & Letters and was selected as first runner-up for the 2022 University of California Graduate Prize for Excellence in Poetry. Their work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, The Journal, Poet Lore, The Pinch, Frontier Poetry and elsewhere. Find her online at marisalainson.com.