LiSA ALDEN
Lisa Alden makes an elegant shambles of our attempts
to organize and prioritize what we find in the world.
- Elizabeth Robinson, judge of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize
Awards
Ann Fields Prize in Poetry
Andrea Goff Memorial Prize
SF Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue
School of Art Broadside Prize
Books, Inc. Poetry Grand Prize
Finalist - MARY Editor's Prize
Runner-up - Michael Rubin Book Award
Finalist - Omnidawn 1st/2nd Book Prize
Semi-finalist - OSU Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry
Semi-finalist - Black River Chapbook Competition
Honors
William Dickey Fellow
Judith Anne Ott Scholar
Edward B. Kaufmann Scholar
Marshall J. Miller Scholar
Carolyn Irene Howard Memorial Scholar
Gloria Spencer UWA scholar
Distinguished Graduate MFA Honors
Mensan
Teaching
Adjunct Faculty in Creative Writing - San Francisco State University
Arts Enrichment Volunteer - The Mission Preparatory School
Editing
Creative Associate - Apogee Press
Poetry Editor - Fourteen Hills
Poetry Staff - Eliot Review
Publications
The Fold - New American Writing
stars, after - (artist's book w/L. Samson-Tabakin) SFSU School of Art
selections from Is It Enough to Have Feathers? - parentheses
selections from Divorce Sonnets - parentheses
Survival & the Maple - OmniVerse
Neighbor - Love Is the Drug Anthology
when the coffee is weak - Gravel
aphrodite tells her friend about adonis - Leveler
When We Have October - The Bastille
early signs of joy - Mothering
Indium - The Wash
Tell - Viator
Love Could Be Such a Thing - Viator
The Sound - Viator
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yes and - VelRo Reader
Little Key - The Walrus
Affair - Transfer