Author. Essayist. Teacher. Explorer of Ice & Memory.

Lisa Nikolidakis is the author of No One Crosses the Wolf, named a Top 10 True Crime Books of 2022 by Audible. She’s currently completing three new books—a short story collection, an essay collection about Iceland, and a hybrid manuscript on mental illness and creativity. She is based in Fort Worth, TX.

Lisa Nikolidakis is an author, award-winning educator, and visual artist based in Fort Worth, Texas. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, Los Angeles Review, Orion, LitHub, Hunger Mountain, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Salt Hill, The Rumpus, Nimrod, Gulf Coast Online, and many other publications.

Writing of hers has won various prizes and mentions, including the Annie Dillard Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast Prize, Indiana Review’s Fiction Prize, the Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction, the Calvino Prize, A Room of Her Own’s Orlando Prize, Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Award for Prose, Hunger Mountain’s Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize, The Briar Cliff Review’s Annual Nonfiction Contest, and The Chattahoochee Review’s Lamar York Prize. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University.

A longtime, award-winning professor of English and Creative Writing, she specializes in memoir, fiction, hybrid forms, and writing for change. Her current projects include a short story collection about Greek diaspora, an essay collection rooted in Icelandic landscapes and cultural histories, and a hybrid book that wedges itself into the cracks between mental illness, art-making, and survival.

Lisa’s artistic practice includes mixed-media painting and nature-based photography, often focused on texture, surface, and abstracted form. Her Arctic landscape photography will be exhibited in 2026, and she will serve as an artist-in-residence in Iceland in June 2026.

She is available for public speaking, workshops, and interdisciplinary collaborations.

She’s represented by Rayhané Sanders @ Massie & McQuilkin, who can be reached at rayhane@mmqlit.com