Lisa Olstein is the author of several poetry collections, including Distinguished Office of Echoes (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award. In addition, she has published a book-length lyric essay, Pain Studies. She teaches in the MFA programs at the University of Texas at Austin.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- To Flee the Kingdom and Other Poems, poetry, in Spring 2021
- The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance, poetry, in Fall 2017
- Three Poems, poetry, in Winter 2014
- December Was Inconsolable and It Hadn’t Even Arrived Yet, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2012–2013
- If It Ever Happens That the Fire Goes Out, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2011–2012
- My Only Life, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2009-2010
- That Magnificent Part the Chorus Does about Tragedy, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2008–2009
- Two Poems, poetry, in Fall 2007