Lisa Zimmerman
Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. from Washington University
in St. Louis. Her poems and short stories have appeared or are
forthcoming in Colorado Review, Atlanta Review, Redbook, The
Sun, River Styx, Portland Review, Indiana Review, Blue Unicorn,
Eclipse, Hiram Poetry Review, Worcester Review, Chattahoochee
Review, Main Street Rag and in the anthologies A Dissimulation of
Birds, A Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, and Eating
the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath. She is the author of
two poetry chapbooks (In Places Without Time Nothing Hurries,
Leaping Mountain Press; Traveling Among the Animals, Pudding
House Publications). Her poetry has been nominated twice for a
Pushcart Prize. Her first full-length collection, How the Garden
Looks from Here, won the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award and was
published in 2004. Her next collection, The Light at the Edge of
Everything, is forthcoming from Anhinga Press in spring 2008. Her
poems have been praised for their deep attention to the world, their “tender
yearning,” and their “unswerving eyes.” Poet Rick Campbell finds in her
poems “a voice that renders the livable world into usable wisdom.” She teaches
creative writing and composition at the University of Northern Colorado.