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Lisa Hiton
Lisa Hiton is a poet and filmmaker living in Brooklyn, NY. Her first book of poems, Afterfeast, was selected by Mary Jo Bang to win the Dorset Prize and is available from Tupelo Press. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Boston University and an MEd in Arts in Education from Harvard University. She is the author of the chapbooks The Clearing (Black Lawrence Press) and Variation on Testimony (CutBank Literary). Her work has been featured or is forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Linebreak, New South, NPR, and elsewhere. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Lafayette College and has served as Poetry Editor for The Adroit Journal. A Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Best-in-Grade Award-winning educator, she is the Founder and Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day at the Deerfield Public Library.
Read a profile on Lisa and her extraordinary work, published by The Lafayette.
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Select work by Lisa available online
Lethargy, Lambda Literary
Portrait in a Jewelry Box, Tupelo Quarterly
The Lyrebird, The Paris-American
The Dwelling Place (or Scoring the Death of the Firstborn), Tupelo Quarterly
The Senator, DMQ Review
Two Poems, The Adroit Journal