I am
“I don’t know whether the bird you are holding is dead or alive, but what I do know is that it is in your hands. It is in your hands.” -Toni Morrison
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Sio Lyons teaches creative writing at the University of the Virgin Islands. Her writing is shaped by her experience with infertility, as featured in Infertilities: A Curation. A Corporeal Writing scholarship recipient, an MFA, a PhD, and mother of one human.
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Sio Lyons is the author of Brackish Baby, a novel-in-progress exploring infertility, child loss, and grief. Her writing appears in Infertilities: A Curation (Wayne State University Press, 2023). Originally from Stillwater, PA, she now lives in St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, where she is an Associate Professor of English at the University of the Virgin Islands (UVI). A graduate of UVI, Sio holds degrees in Creative Leadership, Creative Writing, and Curriculum & Instruction, along with a certificate in Creative Problem Solving from Buffalo State University.
Beyond academia, her career has been richly varied—she has taught creative writing in a county jail and a halfway house for mothers in recovery, worked as a CNA at a retirement home for nuns, delivered paint across Philadelphia in a long van, and waited tables at a truck stop off Route 80.
Her work has been supported by grants and scholarships from the International Association of Maternal Action and Scholarship (IAMAS), Corporeal Writing, Writing by Writers, and the Musehouse: A Center for the Literary Arts. She takes pride in receiving encouraging rejections from the likes of The Missouri Review, Callaloo, HAD, and Write or Die.
My World
Writing Clips
“Who Who.” Fiction manuscripts in progress. 2026.
“Brackish Baby.” Fiction manuscript in progress. 2026.
“Infertilities: A Curation.” Wayne State University Press. Detroit, MI. September 2023. https://wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814350652/. 2023
-Birth Warning
-Cycle #2
“Encouraging Creativity in the English Classroom: A Participatory Action Research Study.” PhD. Thesis. University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, VI 2020
“An Excellent Teacher is a Lifelong Gift to Students.” Letter to the Editor. Virgin Islands Daily News. 2016.
“Poems, Paens, and Possibilities.” Forward written for artist Victor Williams, Book of Poetry. 2016
“Skin Like Unmanned Wetsuits.” Fiction manuscript in progress. 2015
“In this Blue Room: A song cycle for Mezzo Soprano, Baritone” inspired by poem Watermelon Eyes, by Siobhan Lyons. Academy of Vocal Arts, Philadelphia PA, March 13, https://www.youtube.com/watch?