Lisa M. Steinman was born and raised in New England; she attended college in upstate New York, earning an MFA and PhD from Cornell University before moving to the Pacific Northwest, where she teaches at Reed College in Portland, Oregon and — with her husband, Jim Shugrue — edits the poetry magazine Hubbub.  Absence & Presence (2013 from the University of Tampa Press) is her ninth book.  Earlier poetry books include Lost Poems (Ithaca House), All That Comes to Light and A Book of Other Days (both from Arrowood Books), and Carslaw’s Sequences (University of Tampa Press).  She has three books about poetry, as well:  Made in America (Yale University Press), Masters of Repetition (Macmillan), and, most recently, Invitation to Poetry (Wiley-Blackwell).  Widely published in journals and anthologies, her work has been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts, among other places.

Publications

• Absence & Presence , University of Tampa Press (August 2013)

Employment

• Kenan Professor of English at Reed College (August 1976 - )

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Cornell University (May 1973)
• Doctoral Degree in American poetry from Cornell University (May 1976)

Genres of Interest

Poetry