Liza Libes is the Founder and CEO of Invictus Prep, an inventive college consulting startup that highlights Liza’s aptitude for writing and entrepreneurship. She received her BA and MA in English from Columbia University, where she completed her theses on the poetry of Sylvia Plath and T.S. Eliot respectively. Throughout her time as an educator, Liza has worked with over 150 students worldwide, guiding them through every step of the college application process while bringing them a sense of both joy and accomplishment. Liza's work has placed students at top universities such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown, MIT, and Columbia.

Liza is also the founder of Pens and Poison, a unique literary project that has reached over 200k poetry lovers across the world through engaging YouTube, Instagram, and Spotify content and continues to draw in new literary lovers on a daily basis. In 2024, Liza unveiled Pens and Poison Magazine to provide young poets and writers with a platform for their work.

Liza has published three poetry collections, Broken Weekend, Vintage Lovers, and Illicit Kingdom, and is currently at work on her fourth poetry collection, Girl Soldier. Her poetry, which frequently addresses themes of female identity, Judaism, and desire, has appeared in literary journals such as Gone Lawn, Willows Wept Review, Jewish Women of Words, and Subterranean Blue Poetry. When she is not writing, you can find at her favorite bookstore or opera house, perpetually overdressed.