bio

Lisa Van Orman Hadley is the author of Irreversible Things (Howling Bird Press, 2018), which was awarded the Howling Bird Press Fiction Prize, the AML Special Award in Literature, two Midwest Book Awards silver medals, the Larry Levis Post-Graduate Fellowship, and a Barbara Deming Memorial Fund Grant. She is the coeditor, with poet Chloe Martinez, of the forthcoming essay collection Chaos, Creativity, Completion: New Approaches to Writing and ADHD (University of Chicago, 2026). Her stories have appeared in New England Review, the Collagist, and Epoch and have been shortlisted in Ploughshares and Glimmer Train. She works as a freelance editor.