Biography

Lisa Zimmerman grew up in a military family, graduating from S.H.A.P.E. American High School in Belgium. She received her B.A. in English and History from Colorado State University and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis.  Her poetry and fiction have appeared in anthologies as well as magazines including River Styx, the Colorado Review, The Sun, Atlanta Review, Bryant Literary Review, Rhino, and Indiana Review, among other journals. She won the 1986 Redbook magazine short story contest. Her second chapbook Traveling Among the Animals was published in 2002 by Pudding House.  Her poetry book manuscript How the Garden Looks From Here won the 2004 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award and is available from Snake Nation Press.  She has been twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Currently, she teaches composition and creative writing at the University of Northern Colorado and has been a residency artist with Young Audiences of Colorado since 1997.