Lisa Dordal (M.Div., M.F.A.) teaches in the English Department at Vanderbilt University and is the author of Mosaic of the Dark, which was a finalist for the 2019 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry, and Water Lessons (Black Lawrence Press, 2022). She is a Pushcart Prize and Best-of-the-Net nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University Prize and the Robert Watson Poetry Prize. Her poetry has appeared in Narrative, RHINO, The Sun, The New Ohio Review, Best New Poets, Ninth Letter, and CALYX. For more information, please visit her website: lisadordal.com.

Website: http://lisadordal.com/

Twitter Username: @lisadordal

Publications

• Water Lessons , Black Lawrence Press (April 1, 2022)
• Mosaic of the Dark , Black Lawrence Press (January 31, 2018)

Awards

• Finalist for Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry(2019)
• Academy of American Poets Prize, Phillis Levin Judge(2010)
• Robert Watson Poetry Prize from the Greensboro Review(2016)

Employment

• Lecturer at Vanderbilt University (September 2011 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from Vanderbilt University (May 2011)
• Master of Arts in Divinity (M.Div.) from Vanderbilt University (May 2005)

Genres of Interest

Poetry