Liza Sparks M.A.Ed. (she/her) is an intersectional feminist, writer, poet, and creative. Her work is informed by her intersecting identities as a brown-multiracial-neurodivergent-pansexual-woman. Liza lives, works, and writes in Lousiville, Colorado.
Liza holds a BA in poetry from Colorado College and was awarded the El Pomar Scholarship for Leadership and Civic Engagement. Liza also holds an MA in Community Education from Goddard College.
Her story, “Something About Bees” was a finalist for The Pinch’s short fiction contest in 2025. Liza was a finalist for Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Short Story Contest and Essay Contest in 2024. She was nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and a Best of the Net in 2022. Her poem “Gaslit in America” was longlisted for Palette Poetry’s Emerging Poet Prize in 2021. Liza was a finalist for Denver Lighthouse Writers Workshop Emerging Writer Fellowship in Poetry in 2020 and 2019; and was a semifinalist for Button Poetry’s Chapbook Contest in 2018.
Liza Sparks is a student in the 2025-2026 Poetry Collective at The Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, Colorado, where she is working with Suzi Q. Smith, Andrea Rexilius, and a small cohort on a full-length poetry manuscript.
You can find her on Instagram @sparksliza534 or Bluesky @lsparks.bsky.social
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