Lisa Jarnot

Who is Lisa Jarnot?

Lisa Jarnot is an American poet. She was born in Buffalo, New York in 1967 and studied literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 1994 she received an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University. She has lived in San Francisco, Boulder, Providence, and London. Since the mid-1990s she has been a resident of New York City. She has taught creative writing and literature at Brooklyn College, Long Island University, Naropa University, and the Poetry Project in New York City.

Jarnot has edited two poetry journals as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New Poetry. She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission, Ring of Fire, Black Dog Songs and Night Scenes. Her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan was published in August 2012 and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Non-Fiction, and received Honorable Mention in Literature from American Publishers Awards program. Joie De Vivre: Selected Poems: 1992-2012 was published by City Lights in May 2013.