Lisa Olstein

Lisa Olstein is the author of five poetry collections—Radio Crackling, Radio Gone, Lost Alphabet, Little Stranger, Late Empire, and Dream Apartment. Her non-fiction works include Pain Studies, a book-length lyric essay, and Climate, an exchange of epistolary essays with the poet Julie Carr. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Lannan Residency Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, Hayden Carruth Award, Sustainable Arts Fellowship, and Writers League of Texas Book Award, Olstein teaches in the New Writers Project and Michener Center MFA programs at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the lyricist for the rock band Cold Satellite and serves as an associate editor at Tupelo Quarterly.