Lisa Kerr (formerly aka L. Kerr Dunn) has won awards from the SC Fiction Project, the Piccolo Spoleto Fiction Open, and the SC Poetry Initiative. She has also been a Pushcart Prize nominee. Kerr has published articles in a number of creative arts journals including Quarterly West, Calyx, Phoebe, The Examined Life, Yemassee, and The Intima as well as in scholarly journals such as Academic Medicine and Journal of Medical Humanities that reflect her interest in the health humanities. In 2023, she was a Top 10 Finalist for the “Hurt and Healing” Prize from Frontier Poetry.