Lamisse is a writer, poet, workshop facilitator and narrative therapist working across creative writing and performance. She is a 2025 Keesing Studio Writer-in-Residence in Paris.

Her debut book, The Shape of Dust (Pantera Press, 2023) won the 2024 National Biography of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Prize. Lamisse has facilitated writing workshops through Queensland Writers Centre, Melbourne Writers Festival, Emerging Writers Festival, Enough Said! and Queensland University of Technology. Recipient of a Creative Australia Literature Grant and the Regional Arts Development Fund for her work, Lamisse also travelled across rural Queensland to deliver memoir and life-writing workshops with the Queensland Writer’s Centre.

Lamisse’s writing has been published in Runway Journal, RUSSH Magazine, Arts of the Working Class, Al-Araby al Jdeed (The New Arab), JDEED Magazine, The Age, MediaDiversified, SBS Life and ABC. Her poetry has been published in Runaway Journal, Ritual (Sweatshop, 2025), and the anthology ‘Arab, Australian Other’ (Picador, 2019). As a performer, she has trained with the Brisbane-based theatre groups ZenZenZo Physical Theatre, PlayMoves, Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble and Side-Effect Physical Theatre.

Lamisse holds a Bachelor of Arts (Governance and International Relations) and is Adjunct Lecturer for the School of Social Sciences UNSW Art and Design & Architecture at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) 2024-2026.

Artist Statement

I use the written word and performance to re-tether us to each other by meeting the intimacy of our shared survival. I seek to unthread the individualism that isolates and I am inspired by artists and collectives who unweave identities and narratives that once appeared fixed, thereby opening us up to alternative stories and possibilities. Within all my work is an invitation to a re-threading of ourselves to the communal - and an honouring of the ontological imperative to meet our humanity. 

My work is informed by a dense tapestry of professional and personal experiences; which shapes my interdisciplinary approach and my engagement with subjugated histories, critical fabulation, archives, memory and narrative therapeutic practices. Further to this, I draw upon my own history of working with ceramics, collage, spoken-word poetry and devised theatre to challenge conventions of writing and teaching writing. Having had a decade-long career in community development before becoming a writer and an artist, I bring in my knowledge and experience of trauma-informed and therapeutic ways of working to my processes, collaborations and writings.. As such, I look for opportunities to break the isolatory and individualized norms of writing by collaborating with visual artists, musicians and theatre-makers.