About Lisa Birman

Lisa Birman has been teaching writing for the past ten years in the United States, Australia and the Czech Republic. She is the author of For That Return Passage – a Valentine for the United States of America, and co-editor of the anthology Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, and has published several chapbooks of poetry, including O–A Conversation and deportation poems. Her work has appeared in Milk Poetry Magazine, Tarpaulin Sky, Trickhouse, Poetry Project Newsletter, thuggery & grace, 26, admit2, Bombay Gin, and not enough night.

Lisa works as a content editor, copyeditor, and proofreader. She will work with you to make sure that your project maintains its artistic integrity, while also considering standard forms and grammatical conventions.

Lisa is the Director of the Summer Writing Program at Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, where she also teaches for the MFA in Creative Writing.