Lisa Olstein is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), and a book- length lyric essay, Pain Studies (Bellevue Literary Press, 2020). Dream Apartment, her fifth book of poems, is forthcoming in 2023. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Literary Residency, Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Pushcart Prize, and Hayden Carruth Award, she is a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin where she teaches in the New Writers Project and Michener Center for Writers MFA programs.
