Lisa Russ Spaar

Lisa Russ Spaar
Occupation	professor, University of Virginia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Virginia
Genre	poetry

Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist.

She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and the director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently Vanitas, Rough: Poems and Satin Cash: Poems. Her latest collection, Orexia, will be published by Persea Books in 2017. The Virginia Quarterly Review describes her work as

"the perfect marriage of the realism of William Carlos Williams . . . and the sleepless heaven-seeking of such cloistered ecstatics as Emily Dickinson and Gerard Manly Hopkins."

Her poem, Temple Gaudete, published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize.

Spaar has also edited several anthologies, including All That Mighty Heart: London Poems, which Billy Collins says "gathers [a] mighty swirl of poetry into a gorgeous volume whose variety and heft rival the city itself— its smoke, roar, and flow."

Spaar graduated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in 1978. Two years later, in 1980, she returned to the University of Virginia to complete her education with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry).

Spaar's books of poetry include Orexia (forthcoming from Persea Books, 2017),Vanitas, Rough (2012), Satin Cash: Poems 2008, Blue Venus (2004), and [http://www.amazon.com/GLASS-TOWN-LISA-SPAAR/dp/1888996188 Glass Town (1999), for which she won the Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000.

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