EDUCATION:
Lisa Birman is a poet and novelist who splits her time between Australia and the United States. Her first novel, How To Walk Away (Spuyten Duyvil Press, 2015), was awarded the 2016 Colorado Book Award in Literary Fiction. She is the editor of Dearest Annie, You wanted a report on Berkson’s class: Letters from Frances LeFevre to Anne Waldman (Hanging Loose Press, 2016), co-editor of the anthology Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action (Coffee House Press, 2004), and author of a hybrid poetry collection, For That Return Passage—A Valentine for the United States of America (Hollowdeck Press, 2008). Her manuscript, The World of When, was a finalist for the Tucson Festival of Books in 2020 and longlisted for the Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards.
Lisa holds an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she served as Director of the Summer Writing Program for twelve years. She is a freelance writer, teacher, and editor, working with writers on a wide range of projects and genres—from memoir and essays to novels and poetry. She enjoys working with writers on everything from developmental editing and coaching to copy editing and proofreading—whatever it takes to make the work shine.
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