Student Information
Graduate Student
Creative Writing
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Long Bio
Lan Lesmeister is a poet, performer, playwright, and filmmaker from St. Louis, Missouri. They are the Arts & Web Editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review. Lan's writing has been supported by Tin House, Lambda Literary, The Kenyon Writers Workshop, The Juniper Summer Writing Institute, The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, & OMAI First Wave. Their writing is published in The Missouri Review, Foglifter, The Offing, The Margins, Nimrod International, and elsewhere. Lan has written and performed for venues including The Lincoln Center, Washington University in St. Louis, Nuyorican Poets Café, Maui Arts Cultural Center, Brave New Voices, The Theatre Communications Group National Conference, and elsewhere. Their debut film was published by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. For more visit lanlesmeister.com
Courses
2025 Spring
2024 Fall
2024 Spring
2023 Fall