Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet

Discipline: Poetry

Based In: San Francisco, CA

Year at Millay: 2002

Awards/Honors: Prize Winner, Frost Place Chapbook Competition, Bull City Press, Durham, NC (2014); Poetry Prize, "Cream City Review" University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI (2013); Prize Winner, The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2009); Fellow, Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in Creative Writing to attend the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College (2004); Prize Winner, San Jose Center For Poetry and Literature Poetry Prize, Poetry Center San José, San José, CA (2001); James D. Phelan Literary Award, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA (2001).

Website: https://lisagluskinstonestreet.com

Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet is the author of The Greenhouse (Frost Place Prize, Bull City Press) and Tulips, Water, Ash (Morse Poetry Prize, Northeastern University Press). Her poems have appeared in journals and anthologies including Plume, Zyzzyva, The Kenyon Review, Nasty Women Poets, and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry and have earned her Javits and Phelan fellowships and residencies at Vermont Studio Center, The Frost Place, Mineral School, and Willapa Bay AiR; she holds a BA from Yale and an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. Lisa reads, writes, edits, and teaches writing from her backyard Poetry Shack. She has terrible handwriting but is surprisingly good at math.