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Lisa Olstein has 1 past event. (show)  Reading & Signing with Jenny Browne & Lisa Olstein Jenny Browne is the author of Dear Stranger (University of Tampa Press 2013, The Second Reason (University of Tampa Press, 2007), At Once (UT Press, 2003) and the chapbook, Glass (Pecan Grove, 2000). Her poems and essays have recently appeared in American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, The New York Times, Tin House, and Threepenny Review. She is also the editor of Provide and Protect, Writers on Planned and Unplanned Parenthood (Wings Press, 2005). A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, she currently teaches creative writing at Trinity University and lives with her husband and daughters Lyda and Harriet in downtown San Antonio.
Lisa Olstein is the author of Radio crackling, radio gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006), winner of the Hayden Carruth Award, and Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009), named one of the nine best poetry books of 2009 by Library Journal. Her third collection, Little Stranger, was released from Copper Canyon Press in May 2013. Cold Satellite, an album of songs based on her poems and lyrics, was released by singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in fall 2010 and was ranked #1 on Greil Marcus’ Real Life Rock Top Ten list in The Believer (February 2011). A new album, Cavalcade, will be released in April 2013. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council and Centrum. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including The Nation, The Iowa Review, American Letters & Commentary, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, Indiana Review, notnostrums, and Glitterpony. She is a contributing editor of jubilat. With Dara Wier and Noy Holland she co-founded and co-directs the Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts & Action at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is Associate Director of MFA Program for Poets and Writers and Director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute. In the fall of 2013, she will join the faculty of the New Writers Project, the MFA program in the Department of English at the University of Texas Austin.
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