Lisa Coffman

Lecturer

Office: Bldg. 38-208
Phone: 756-2140
Lisa Coffman

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Education

M.A., Creative Writing, New York University, 1989.
B.A., English and Computer Science, University of Tennessee, 1990 

Teaching and Research Interests

Contemporary Poetry
Journalism
Creative Writing, Poetry and Nonfiction
Southern Appalachian Folklore  

Selected Publications

Less Obvious Gods. Iris Press, 2013.

"Kiss," "A Royal Coachman Trout Lure Sent As Courtship Gift," Myrrh, Mothwing and Smoke, Tupelo Press, 2013.

"Not Choosing Otherwise," "Poem as Insect, Poem as Bird," "Lisa Coffman," "The Past Tense," "Light Comes at Me Sideways," Aperçus Quarterly 2012.

“The Cicadas,” “Likely,” “Pulled Down,” The Next of Us Is About to Be Born. Ed. Maggie Anderson. Kent State University Press, 2009.

“Tick” and selected poems. Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. Eds. Sandra Ballard and Patricia Hudson. Louisville, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

“Small Paintings in Sarah McEneaney’s Paintings.” A Fine Excess: Fifty Years of the Beloit Poetry Journal. Ed. Marion K. Stocking. Lamoine, Maine: The Beloit Poetry Journal Foundation, Inc., 2001.

Selected poems. American Poetry: The Next Generation. Eds. Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000.

Likely. Kent State University Press, 1996.

Awards and Honors

Ingrid Reti Literary Grant, 2011, for "No Business, Tennessee"
Deep Springs College Visiting Professor in Creative Writing, 2003 and 1997.
National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Writing Fellowship, 1997.
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Poetry Writing Fellowship, 1995.
Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship, 1993.
Bucknell University Resident Poet, 1990.