Lisa Cupolo is the author of Have Mercy On Us, which won the W.S. Porter Prize for short fiction. Her debut collection received a glowing review in the New York Times, “Cupolo is daring with her plots, at times even shocking.” Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried, said, “I wish I had written all ten of these brilliant, tender, and beautiful stories.”
Cupolo’s work has appeared in The Virginia Quarterly Review, Ploughshares, Narrative, The Idaho Review, among others. Her short story How I Became A Banker was performed at Wordtheatre in Los Angeles by Lisa Edelstein.
Cupolo has been a paparazzi photographer in London, an aid worker in Kenya, a script doctor in LA, and a literary publicist at HarperCollins in Toronto.
She holds a BA in Philosophy from The University of Western Ontario, a graduate degree in Portrait Photography from The London Institute, and an MFA from the University of Memphis. She has lived all over the world, but currently resides in Orange, California.