Lisa Marie Basile is a former foster care youth and foster youth advocate. Select essays, articles and prose pieces are below. 

• A Foster Child of the Opioid Epidemic (The New York Times)

• My Foster Parents Loved Me. And I Hated Them For It  (Narratively)

• Why It's 100% OK To Talk To Me About My Time In Foster Care (Ravishly)

• Foster Care Youth: We Are Everyone & No One's Responsibility (Huffington Post) 

• From Homeless Shelter to NY Success Story (A Woman's Thing)

• The Poetry of Foster Care (Little Infinite)

• Life As a Foster Youth Child (Podcast)

• Foster Care and the Shame Spiral (Stigma Fighters)

• Now You Know I Am An Orphan (Entropy)

• On PTSD, Memory Loss, and Being Here Now (Substack)

Other Mentions

• Amy Poehler's Smart Girls — Lisa Marie Basile Feature

  "She struggled with shaking off her “foster care” identity and finding herself. But, in writing she found solace, and later, purpose."

• Addiction in the Foster Care System — New England Draw

• Four Fierce Poets Who Grew Up In Foster Care

• The Connection Between Foster Care and Drug Addiction — Palm Partners Recovery Center