Lisa Olstein

Lisa Olstein is the author of five poetry collections published by Copper Canyon Press: Dream Apartment (2023), Late Empire (2017), Little Stranger (2013), Lost Alphabet (2009), and Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (2006). Her nonfiction includes Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press, 2020), a book length lyric essay, and Climate (Essay Press, 2022), an exchange of epistolary essays with the poet with Julie Carr. Olstein's honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Lannan Residency Fellowship, Hayden Carruth Award, and Writers League of Texas Discovery Award. She is a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches in the New Writers Project and Michener Center for Writers MFA programs. www.lisaolstein.org