Kyra Lisse is a writer and editor from the Philadelphia area. She holds a BA in creative writing and Latin from Franklin & Marshall College and an MFA in creative writing from Hollins University. Kyra serves as assistant managing editor at Ayin Press and as the director of the 2026 Yetzirah Jewish Poetry Conference. She writes prose and poetry about Jewish womanhood, the mother–daughter relationship, the body in social spaces, and the (f)act of writing itself.