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Name
  
Lisa Williams


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
Belmont University, University of Cincinnati, University of Virginia

Books
  
Life Among the Dead, Gazelle in the House, Woman Reading to the Sea, Letters to Virginia Woolf, Leading Beyond Excellence

Lisa Williams (born 1966) is an American poet.

Contents

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Life

She is from Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Belmont University, from the University of Virginia, with an M.F.A. and from the University of Cincinnati, with an M.A.

She is an associate professor of English at Centre College.

Her work has appeared in The Southwest Review, Poetry, Raritan, The Cincinnati Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, and The Hollins Critic.

Awards

  • 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize, for Woman Reading to the Sea, selected by Joyce Carol Oates
  • May Swenson Poetry Award, for The Hammered Dulcimer
  • 2004 Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters

    • Works

  • "Geometry"; "Farthest Flame", The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2006
  • "Stemming  from Stevens". Poetry. February 2008. 
  • "Melt". The Missouri Review. Spring 2009. 
  • Woman Reading to the Sea. W.W. Norton & Co. 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-06643-2. 
  • The Hammered Dulcimer. Utah State University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-87421-249-5. 

    • Anthologies

  • David Lehman, ed. (2008). "On Not Using the Word "Cunt" in a Poem". The Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to Present. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-3746-5. 

    • References

    Lisa Williams (poet) Wikipedia
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