Lisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections: Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, winner of the Hayden Carruth Award; Lost Alphabet, a Library Journal best book of the year; Little Stranger, a Lannan Literary Selection; and Late Empire. In addition, she has published a book-length lyric essay, Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press, 2020). 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