Lisa Olstein

Lisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections, Lost Alphabet, Little Stranger, Late Empire, and Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, and a book-length lyric essay, Pain Studies. She is also the lyricist for the rock band Cold Satellite, a collaboration with the singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault. Olstein’s honors include a Lannan Residency, Pushcart Prize, Hayden Carruth Award, Essay Press Chapbook Prize, and fellowships from the Sustainable Arts Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Centrum. She co-founded the Juniper Initiative and for ten years directed the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Currently, she is a member of the poetry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches in the Michener Center for Writers and New Writers Project MFA programs.