Lisa Hiton

Lisa is a poet and filmmaker living in Brooklyn. Her first book of poems, Afterfeast, was selected by Mary Jo Bang to win the Dorset Prize and is available from Tupelo Press. She is also 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.

Lisa 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 also the Founder and Producer of Queer Poem-a-Day at the Deerfield Public Library.