Lisa Segal is a poet/writer/artist and past contributor to the Thieving Magpie (Issues 1 and 3).  She has lived in Los Angeles for more than thirty years. Her book, METAMORPHOSIS: Who is the Maker? An Artist’s Statement, published by Bombshelter Press, includes her poetry, prose, and photographs of her sculptures. She won the 2017 Los Angeles Poet Society Poetry Month Contest. She teaches poetry and writing as part of the Los Angeles Poets & Writers Collective and is a member of StudioEleven, an artist-run cooperative. Her poems and writings appear in Cultural Weekly, The Mas Tequila Review, Serving House Journal, KYSO, Dos Gatos Press, Spectrum, Poeticdiversity, Writing In A Woman’s Voice, ONTHEBUS, FRE&D and elsewhere. She is one of the three poets in the Bombshelter Press poetry collection TRIPS.