Lamisse is a writer, poet, performer and workshop facilitator working across creative writing and performance. She is the co-founder and member of the international artist collective, MUFARAQA. 

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 included in the ‘Arab, Australian Other’ anthology (Picador, 2019) and will be included in the upcoming Muslim Poetry Anthology (Sweatshop, 2025). In 2024, she was invited to the Varuna Masterclass in Poetry with Felicity Plunkett. As a performer, she has trained with the Brisbane-based theatre groups ZenZenZo Physical Theatre, PlayMoves, Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble. In 2021/22, Lamisse lived in Vienna where she was an ensemble member with 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

Lamisse is currently working on her debut poetry collection. She is currently based in Magan-djin (Brisbane), Australia.

Artist Statement

I seek to unthread the individualism that isolates, to re-tether us to each other by meeting the intimacy of our shared survival; exploring themes of grief, loss, ancestral re-tetherings, joy and narrative repair. I often circle around the subject of healing through experiences of witnessing and connection. I work through unfolding, whereby the process informs the outcome. As such, I often create in collaboration. I draw upon the crafts of creative writing and performance, often in partnership with artists of various disciplines; my recent collaboration involved partnering with sound-artist and flautist Han Reardon-Smith to create a suite of sound-poems for Runway Journal.

I co-founded the international artist collective MUFARAQA with 12 artists across Europe, Australia and Canada in 2024. I am inspired by artists and collectives (such as Grada Kilomba, SCHOOL/Yasmina Haddad and Andrea Lumplecker, and Brisbane Free University) who interrogate power, and unfix identities and narratives that once appeared immoveable. It is my intention to invite a rethreading of ourselves to the communal, an refusal to split body/mind/heart, and to continually engage with our ontological imperative to meet our humanity.