Lisa Russ Spaar

Spaar graduated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in 1978. Two years later, in 1980, she returned to the University of Virginia to complete her education with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry).

Spaar's books of poetry include Orexia (2017),[3] Vanitas, Rough (2012), Satin Cash: Poems 2008, Blue Venus (2004), and [https://www.amazon.com/GLASS-TOWN-LISA-SPAAR/dp/1888996188 Glass Town (1999), for which she won the Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000.

Spaar's poems have been widely published in many places, including Boston Review,[4] Poetry,[5] Ploughshares,[6] The Paris Review,[7] SLATE,[8] The Virginia Quarterly Review,[9] IMAGE Journal,[10] Plume,[11] The Alabama Literary Review,[12] Blackbird,[13] Spirituality & Health, Cerise Press,[14] Connotations Press,[15] Waxwing,[16] TUBA, 32 Poems,[17] Shenandoah,[18] TriQuarterly,[19] The Kenyon Review,[20] The Yale Review,[21] Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West,[22] Verse, Poetry East, Drunken Boat,[23] The Hollins Critic, The Southwest Review, Crazyhorse, The Laurel Review, Bellingham Review,[24] College English,[25] Meridian,[26] Brilliant Corners,[27] The Atlanta Review, The Southern Poetry Review,[28] Poet Lore, Free Verse,[29] Carolina Quarterly, American Literary Review, 64, Indiana Review,[30] Smartish Pace,[31] & elsewhere.

Currently, Spaar writes a series of articles entitled "Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books of Poetry," published through the Los Angeles Review of Books.[32]

Spaar has contributed more than 70 articles to the Chronicle of Higher Education, including the Monday's Poem series[33] and the Spaar on Poetry series.[34]

Spaar has received numerous teaching honors and awards.

• 2011 Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize [35]
• 2009/2010 Guggenheim Fellowship [36]
• 2001 Emily Clark Balch Award of the Virginia Quarterly Review
• 2000 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award[37]
• 1997 Finalist, National Poetry Series
• 1996 Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artists Award
• 1978 Academy of American Poets Prize - University of Virginia
• 1980 Hoyns Fellowship in Poetry - University of Virginia

• Past grief. University of Virginia. 1982.
• Cellar. Alderman Press. 1983.
• Blind Boy on Skates, Trilobite Chapbooks of the University of Northern Texas Press, 1987.
• Glass Town, poems. Red Hen Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-888996-18-0.
• Acquainted With the Night: Insomnia Poems. Columbia University Press. Fall 1999. ISBN 978-0-231-11544-5.
• Blue Venus: Poems, Persea Books, 2004.
• All That Mighty Heart: London Poems (ed.). University of Virginia Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-8139-2717-6.
• Satin Cash: Poems. Persea Books. 2008. ISBN 978-0-89255-343-3.
• Vanitas, rough : poems. New York: Persea Books. 2012.
• Orexia: Poems. Persea Books. 2017.