Lisa Lewis

Oklahoma, United States

Member Since: 09/02/2008


Lisa Lewis’s books include The Unbeliever (Brittingham Prize), Silent Treatment (National Poetry Series), Vivisect, (New Issues Press), and Burned House with Swimming Pool (American Poetry Journal Prize, Dream Horse Press).  A fifth collection, titled The Body Double, will be published in 2015 as a winner of the Georgetown Review Poetry Manuscript Contest.  A chapbook titled Story Box was also published as winner of the Poetry West Chapbook Contest.  Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies, including Kenyon Review, Washington Square, Third Coast, American Literary Review, Fence, Seattle Review, Rattle, and two editions of Best American Poetry.  She has also won awards from the American Poetry Review and the Missouri Review, a Pushcart Prize and an NEA Fellowship.  She directs the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University and serves as poetry editor for the Cimarron Review.   

Twitter Username: @aliswisel


Genres of Interest

Poetry