Lisa Coffman

Lecturer

English

Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo

Office: 38-215
E-mail: lcoffman@calpoly.edu
Phone: 805-756-6143

 

 

 

Education

Degree	Major Emphasis	Institution	Year
M.A.	Creative Writing	New York University
	Rotary International Scholar	Universität Bonn, Germany
B.A.	College Scholars: Computer Programming & English	University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Minor	Mathematics and German	University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Research and Teaching Interests

Poetry
Feature-length Juornalism
Creative Nonfiction
Southern Appalachian History

Awards, Honors, & Professional Activities

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
Pew Charitable Trusts Fellowship in Poetry
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
Bucknell University Poet in Residence
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, Kent State University Press

Selected Publications & Presentations

Poetry collections Likely (Kent State University Press); Less Obvious Gods (Iris Press); feature articles in BBC North America; Oxford American; Philadelphia Inquirer and elsewhere; poetry in anthologies including How to Love the World; Choice Words: Writers on Abortion;  Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia and in journals including The Southern Review; West Branch; River City; Writers Almanac; North Dakota Review and others. 

Organizational Memberships

Advisor to Cal Poly Clubs: Writers Collective, Simple Club

Courses at Cal Poly:

ENGL 488 - Advanced Creative Writing: Poetry
ENGL 461 - Senior Project
ENGL 388 - Poetry Writing
ENGL 386 - Creative Non-fiction
ENGL 351 - Modern Poetry
ENGL 253 - Introduction to Romantic through Modernist Literature
ENGL 251 - Introduction to Classical Literature
ENGL 134 - Writing and Rhetoric