Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in the Colorado Review, Redbook, The Sun, River Styx, Poet Lore, and Indiana Review, among other journals. Her poetry has been nominated three times, most recently in 2009, for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks as well as the book How the Garden Looks From Here, winner of the 2004 Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award. Her most recent collection The Light at the Edge of Everything was published in 2008 by Anhinga Press. She is an assistant professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado.