Lyall F. Harris is an award-winning artist, published creative and critical writer, and educator in the book arts. She holds a BA in Art History from Northwestern University (Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Book Art and Creative Writing from Mills College as the inaugural graduate in the nation’s first MFA of this kind.
Since the late 90s, Lyall's artwork has been exhibited in more than one hundred solo and juried group shows and recognized with over twenty awards, including The George Hitchcock Prize from the National Academy Museum, New York. Lyall has been the recipient of residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, NALL Foundation in Vence, France, and The Grabhorn Institute. Her artwork has been featured in literary magazines La Petite Zine and Generations.
Lyall's poetry has appeared in The New Guard, The Prose Poem Project, Haiku Journal, and the San Francisco Bay Guardian, among other publications. Her creative nonfiction was featured in The Montréal Review in June 2011. She was awarded the Honorable Mention for the Mary Merritt Henry Prize in Poetry and also received an Honorable Mention from New Millennium Writings (poetry). Her writing has been a finalist for The Bunchgrass Poetry Prize, The Briar Cliff Review Poetry Contest, and the Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction Award.
Lyall lives and works in San Francisco and Tuscany.