Lisa Williams (poet)

Lisa Williams (born 1966) is an American poet.

Life
She is from Nashville, Tennessee. She graduated from Belmont University, from the University of Virginia, with an M.F.A. and from the University of Cincinnati, with an M.A.

She is an associate professor of English at Centre College.

Her work has appeared in The Southwest Review, Poetry, Raritan, The Cincinnati Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Daily, and The Hollins Critic.

Awards

 * 2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize, for Woman Reading to the Sea, selected by Joyce Carol Oates
 * May Swenson Poetry Award, for The Hammered Dulcimer
 * 2004 Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters

Works

 * "Geometry"; "Farthest Flame", The Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize 2006