Lisa Olstein

Lisa Olstein

Lisa Olstein is an American poet. She grew up near Boston, Massachusetts, received a BA from Barnard College and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]

Her first book of poems, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006) won the Hayden Carruth Award. Her second collection, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. Shane McCrae selected her chapbook The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance for an Essay Press Chapbook Prize. Her most recent book of poetry, Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) explores the complexities - beautiful and brutal - of our present moment. Pain Studies, a book of creative non-fiction is forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in 2020.

Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and other journals. She has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Writing Residency, and poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.

Olstein currently teaches in the New Writers Project and the Michener Center for Writers (MFA programs in creative writing) at the University of Texas, Austin.[2]

Poetry

  • Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)[3]
  • The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance (Essay Press, 2016) http://www.essaypress.org/ep-72/
  • Little Stranger (Copper Canyon Press, 2013)[4]
  • Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)[5]
  • Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)[6]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lisa-olstein>
  2. ↑ http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/english/news/6385
  3. ↑ Lisa Olstein (2017). Late Empire. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-1-55659-518-9.
  4. ↑ Lisa Olstein (2013). Little Stranger. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-1-55659-432-8.
  5. ↑ Lisa Olstein (2009). Lost Alphabet. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-1-61932-052-9.
  6. ↑ Lisa Olstein (2006). Radio Crackling, Radio Gone. Copper Canyon Press. ISBN 978-1-61932-053-6.
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