Spaar, Lisa Russ

Lisa Russ Spaar is the author of Vanitas, Rough: Poems (2012), Satin Cash (2008), Blue Venus: Poems (2004), all published by Persea Books, and Glass Town: Poems (Red Hen Press, 1999), for which she received a Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000. Twelve of her poems appear in The Land of Wandering: Exquisite History, Volume 1 (The Printmakers Left / University of Virginia Press, 2005), and numerous anthologies, most recently in Best American Poetry 2008. She is the author of two chapbooks of poems, Blind Boy on Skates (Trilobite/University of North Texas Press, 1988) and Cellar