Lisa Martin is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, most recently Nighthawks (University of Alberta Press, 2026). Her first novel, A Story Can Be Told About Pain, appeared with NeWest Press in Spring 2025. Creative Writing in Post-Secondary Education: Practice, Pedagogy, and Research, a blend of memoir and scholarly review, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in Spring 2025. The paperback will appear in Fall 2o26. Lisa's work has won a number of awards, including a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism, The Malahat Review's Open Season Contest for Poetry, the Jon Whyte Memorial Award for Short Non-Fiction, and the Writers' Guild of Alberta's Stephan G. Stephansson Book Award for Poetry. Her second full-length collection of poetry, Believing is Not the Same as Being Saved, was a finalist for the City of Edmonton Book Prize. How to Expect What You're Not Expecting: Stories of Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Loss, an anthology of literary essays she co-edited, won a Bronze medal at the International Independent Publisher Awards (IPPYs). She lives in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 Territory, and is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University.