Biography
Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in the Colorado Review, Redbook, Paper Street, Poet Lore, Eclipse, Atlanta Review and manyother journals. Her poetry has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. She has published two poetry chapbooks as well as the full-length collections How the Garden Looks From Here, winner of the 2004 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award and The Light at the Edge of Everything (Anhinga Press, 2008). Lisa is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado and has been the poet-in-residence in schools in Aurora, Brighton, Longmont, Fort Collins and Idalia, Colorado.