Lisa Poulson

LISA POULSON {[email protected]} is an essayist who writes about the complex beauty of female power. Her work has appeared in Multiplicity Magazine, Critical Read, Months to Years, The Dewdrop, and Manifest-Station and has received an honorable mention for Memoir Vignette in the SoulMaking Keats Literary Competition. She lives in San Francisco.

The Complementarity Principle

Articles/Essays – Volume 54, No. 1

In 2008, I turned forty-five, Wall Street collapsed, California voters banned gay marriage, and I lost my virginity. The financial system’s meltdown changed the air I breathed, in the same way fire distributes ash for…