Lisa Fishman
BIO
Biography

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 2/25/25] 

New poetry book: One Big Time, Wave Books, release date May 6, 2025

seventh collection of poetry, Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition, Wave Books (2020)

debut fiction collection, World Naked Bike Ride (Gaspereau Press (2022). 

 

She is also the author of 24 Pages and other poems (Wave, 2015); F L O W E R C A R T (Ahsahta Press, 2011); Current (Parlor Press, 2011); The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta, 2007); Dear, Read (Ahsahta, 2002) and The Deep Heart’s Core is a Suitcase (New Issues Press, 1996). A dual Canadian/US writer with family roots in Montreal, she currently divides her time between Nova Scotia and her farm in Wisconsin and is an editor at Poetry Salzburg Review. Fishman has been nominated for a PEN/Robert J. Dau Story Story Prize and a Pushcart Prize. Her work is anthologized in Best American Experimental Writing (Omnidawn, 2014), The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity University Press, 2013), The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta, 2012), Not for Mothers Only (Fence Books, 2007), American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie-Mellon UP, 2000) and elsewhere. Her chapbooks include at the same time as scattering (Albion Books, 2010), Lining (Boxwood Editions, 2009), KabbaLoom (Wyrd Press, 2008), and ‘The Holy Spirit does not deal in synonimes: a Transcription of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Marginalia in Her Greek and Hebrew Bibles’ (Parcel Press, 2008). A pamphlet, Deer 1, was published by Oxeye Press, 2015, and Note on Niedecker’s Takuboku was published as a pamphlet by The Brother in Elysium in 2015 (expanded in The Wave Papers, 2016). The first Lorine Niedecker Poet-in-Residence on Blackhawk Island, Fishman recently served as MFA Director at Columbia College Chicago, where she is Professor of English and Creative Writing. She has recent or forthcoming work in 6x6, Denver Quarterly, Fairy Tale Review, 1913, Volt, jubilat, SplitLevel Texts, Jacket 2 and other journals.

ADDRESS
City: Orfordville and Halifax, Province/Territory: Nova Scotia
EMAIL
GENRE
Fiction
LANGUAGES
English
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
One Big Time
Publisher
Wave Books
Year
2025
Title
World Naked Bike Ride
Publisher
Gaspereau Press
Year
2022
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
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any
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poetry, fiction
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any
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Various and flexible, including literary talks (as well as readings)

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variable
Workshop details
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up to 30
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any
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any
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Various and flexible

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variable
School presentation details
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any
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any
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any
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Various and flexible

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variable
Programs & Interests
Interested in participating Union’s Ontario Writers-in-the-Schools program:
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Yes
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Yes