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Lisa Lewis is an American poet and professor, born 1956 in Roanoke, Virginia.

Biography

Lewis is the author of six books of poetry and is the director of the creative writing program at Oklahoma State University. In 2011, she received an Individual Artist's Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is the Editor in Chief and Poetry Editor of The Cimarron Review. Her first book, The Unbeliever, was published as winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1994. Silent Treatment, winner of the National Poetry Series, appeared from Viking/Penguin in 1998. New Issues Poetry & Prose published Vivisect in 2010, and Burned House with Swimming Pool, appeared as winner of The American Poetry Review Prize in 2011. In 2016, The Body Double appeared from Georgetown Review Press. In 2017, Lewis received the Tenth Gate Prize, a prize awarded each year to an exceptional manuscript by a mid-career poet with at least two previous books, from the Word Works.

References

1. "About Lisa Lewis | Academy of American Poets".
2. "Lisa Lewis Archives". National Poetry Series. Retrieved 2020-07-17.
3. "Lisa Lewis". 8 October 2021.
4. ^ "Lisa Lewis | NEA". www.arts.gov. Archived from the original on 2019-10-29.
5. https://cimaronreview.com/masthead/
6. "Winner of the Tenth Gate Prize!".

• 21st-century American poets
• 1956 births
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• Poets from Virginia
• People from Lenoir, North Carolina
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• American women poets
• Writers from Roanoke, Virginia
• 21st-century American writers
• 21st-century American women writers