Lisa Williams
Lisa Williams' first book of poems, The Hammered Dulcimer (1998), won the May Swenson Poetry Award. Her second book, Woman Reading to the Sea , was selected by Joyce Carol Oates for the 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize and was published by W.W. Norton in April 2008. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, Williams received her M.F.A. from the University of Virginia, her M.A. from the University of Cincinnati, and her B.A. from Belmont University. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Measure, Salmagundi, Raritan, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Cincinnati Review, and Southwest Review , and her work is also featured in Best American Erotic Poems: 1800 to Present, edited by David Lehman (Scribner's 2008). Her essays on contemporary poets appear in The Hollins Critic. In 2004 Williams was awarded the Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She is currently associate professor of English at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky.
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