 
			
				
				About Lisa Wilde
				
				Lisa Wilde 
Lisa Wilde is an artist, writer and teacher. Her graphic book—Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at High School (Microcosm Publishing, 2015) was called a “notable comic” by Bill Kartalopoulos in Best American Comics. Lisa’s second graphic book, Lacunae, was serialized at Muthamagazine.com in 2016. Her zine, Yo, Miss #6: Changes—Vengeance, Trump and the Eumenides was short-listed for Broken Pencil’s 2018 zine awards. She is a fellow of the Academy for Teachers.
				
				
 
				
				
				
																																				
					
					
					
				
					
				
				
			
			 
		
				
		
			
    	
	
	
	
	
		
		February 28th, 2020 | by Lisa Wilde
		
		In her new book, Quando Sono Italiana/When I am Italian (SUNY press, 2019), Joanna Clapps Herman looks at what it means to be raised as an Italian in America—coming from a culture where, as she writes, “children are more central to life than even food.”
		
		
	
	 
	
		
		
    	
	
	
	
	
		
		April 28th, 2016 | by Lisa Wilde
		
		It has not been easy for me to call myself an artist (and I still feel that some will say
		
		
	
	 
	
		
		
    	
	
	
	
	
		
		April 21st, 2016 | by Lisa Wilde
		
		Probably the most liberating part of leaving home was that it gave space to my unconscious. It was my unconscious—rambunctious,
		
		
	
	 
	
		
		
    	
	
	
	
	
		
		April 14th, 2016 | by Lisa Wilde
		
		  To be continued… I think the hardest part of my teenage years was the silence. As you can see
		
		
	
	 
	
		
		
    	
	
	
	
	
		
		April 7th, 2016 | by Lisa Wilde
		
		To be continued… Sometimes we tell stories about our lives in order to understand more about who we are. After
		
		
	
	 
	
		
		
    	
	
	
	
	
		
		March 31st, 2016 | by Lisa Wilde
		
		They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. Excerpt from Philip Larkin’s