Lisa Russ Spaar is the author or editor of more than ten books of poetry and criticism, most recently Orexia: Poems (Persea, 2017) and the forthcoming anthology More Truly & More Strange: 100 Contemporary American Self-Portrait Poems (Persea, 2020). Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Library of Virginia Prize for Poetry, the Carole Weinstein Poetry Prize, and a Pushcart Prize. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia.
