Lisa Lopez Snyder

A headshot of Lisa Lopez Snyder smiling.

Lisa Lopez Snyder is a health care writer and magazine editor in Columbus, Ohio, where she also teaches creative writing at Thurber House. Her stories and essays appear in Raleigh Review, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, The Summerset Review, 34th Parallel, and other publications. Her essay, “In Transit,” won The Chattahoochee Review’s 2011 Lamar York Prize for Nonfiction and in 2015 she was named the Carl Sandburg Writer-in-Residence. She is completing a memoir in essays about being a paper girl in the 1970s.

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Dancing Toward Morelia

Lisa Lopez Snyder  | 
Issue 75.2 Spring 2026

Then there’s me. A single thirty-two-year-old. Chicana. Freelance writer. Broken Spanish. An orphan who feels she has finally found a family. Reaching for the sounds of a familiar past.