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Lisa Hase-Jackson [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Pittsburgh, PA
Pennsylvania US
Bio: 

Lisa Hase-Jackson’s second poetry collection, Insomnia in Another Town, was selected by Clair Bateman as winner of the 2023 Converse MFA Aluni Book Prize and published by Clemson University Press in 2024. Her debut collection of poetry, Flint and Fire, was selected by Pulitzer Prize Winner Jericho Brown for the 2019 Hilary Tham Capital Collection Series, an imprint of the Word Works in Washington DC. Lisa holds an MFA in poetry from Converse University in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and a MA in English from Kansas State University. She has taught poetry and ecofeminism at a variety of colleges and universities and currently teaches poetry and creative writing at the University of Pittsburgh.

Recent publications:

Book Reviews
An Art, A Craft, A Mystery by Laura Secord, Alabama Writers Forum, March 2, 2023 (online) https://writersforum.org/an-art-a-craft-... [2]
Reparations Now by Ashley M. Jones, Alabama Writers Forum, June 7, 2022 (online) https://writersforum.org/reparations-now/ [3]

Poems:
“Washington Street,” Chiron Review, Summer 2024
"Joaquin Stalls Over Bahamas," Hive Avenue, Spring 2023 (online) https://37878aca-094c-466f-a65e-a747e124... [4]
“After the Ban,” Limp Wrist, Summer 2022 (online) https://www.limpwristmagazine.com/lw6toc [5]
“Dead Birds of the Great Leap Forward,” Jasper’s Fall/Lines, edited by Cynthia Boiter and Ed Madden, vol. IX, June 2022
“Land of the Southwind,” “Dead Birds of the Great Leap Forward,” “One Saturday in March,” “Yield,” and “Her Own Girl,” Weekly Hubris, February 28, 2022 (online) https://weeklyhubris.com/the-poetry-of-l... [6]

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
In which languages are you fluent?: 
English
Favorite authors: 
Ashley M. Jones Lauren Alleyne Amy Fleury Rick Mulkey Denise Duhamel Evie Shockley Camille Dungy Aimee Nezhukumatathil Sharon Olds Oliver de la Paz Yona Harvey Suzanne Cleary Alison Joseph Charles Simic Louise Gluck
Born in: 
Portland, OR
Oregon
Raised in: 
Kansas City, MO
Missouri
RSS feed: 
https://lisahase-jackson.com/ [7]
Website: 
https://LisaHaseJackson.com [8]
Prizes won: 
  • Kansas Authors Club, Nelson Poetry Book Award
  • Pushcart Nomination
  • Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize
  • Hilary Tham Capital Collections Series Book Prize
Education: 
Converse University
Kansas State University
What I'm reading now: 
If One of us Should Fall by Nicole Terez Dutton
The Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Next Word, Better Order by Stephen Dobyns
Writers Retreats: 
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts
Vermont Studio Center
Identifies as: 
American
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Naturalists/Environmentalists
Women

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Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/lisa_hasejackson [2] https://writersforum.org/an-art-a-craft-a-mystery-a-novel-in-poetry/ [3] https://writersforum.org/reparations-now/ [4] https://37878aca-094c-466f-a65e-a747e124c8ef.filesusr.com/ugd/9d473d_6cc70ce9ca874e589bb8e541113fc1a0.pdf [5] https://www.limpwristmagazine.com/lw6toc [6] https://weeklyhubris.com/the-poetry-of-lisa-m-hase-jackson/ [7] https://lisahase-jackson.com/ [8] https://LisaHaseJackson.com