Lisa Lewis is an American poet and professor, born 1956 in Roanoke, Virginia.

Biography

Lewis is the author of six books of poetry and is the director of the creative writing program at

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. In 2011, she received an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the

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. She is the Editor in Chief and Poetry Editor of the literary magazine housed at Oklahoma State University, ''

The Cimarron Review ''The Cimarron Review'' is a major American literary journal published quarterly by the Oklahoma State University. It was founded in 1967, and its current editor is Lisa Lewis. The magazine has its headquarters in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Contributo ...

''. Her first book, ''The Unbeliever'', was published as winner of the

Brittingham Prize in Poetry The Brittingham Prize in Poetry is a major United States literary award for a book of poetry chosen from an open competition. The prize, established in 1985, is sponsored by the English Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and is ...

in 1994. ''Silent Treatment,'' winner of the

National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and cho ...

, appeared from Viking/Penguin in 1998.

New Issues Poetry & Prose New Issues Poetry & Prose is a literary press associated with Western Michigan University. It was founded by poet and Western Michigan University professor Herbert S. Scott. Editors have included poets William Olsen and Nancy Eimers. The Huffi ...

published ''Vivisect'' in 2010, and ''Burned House with Swimming Pool'', appeared as winner of

The American Poetry Review ''The American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Elizabe ...

Prize in 2011. In 2016, ''The Body Double'' appeared from Georgetown Review Press. The poet

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calls Lewis’ poems "acutely honest, bristling with beauty, and terribly real." She goes on to say, "calling out from the rural horse pastures and the blackness of the mind's night, ''The Body Double'' is, at once, a tribute to the world's roughness and bowing down to its mysterious power." In 2017, Lewis received the Tenth Gate Prize, a prize awarded each year to an exceptional manuscript by a mid-career poet with at least two previous books, from the

Word Works The Word Works is a literary organization based in Washington, DC. The press was founded in 1974 and has published works by Frannie Lindsay, Fred Marchant, Jay Rogoff, Grace Cavalieri, Donna Denizé, Christopher Bursk, and Enid Shomer and is a m ...

References

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