Lisa Cooper
grew up in Tucson, and earned her MFA in
creative writing from the University of Arizona in 1989. Chax
Press published her full-length collection of poems, &
Calling It Home, in 1998, and she won an Arizona Commission
on the Arts fellowship in 2001. Her poems have been published
in numerous literary magazines, including New American Writing,
Talisman, Sonora Review, Hambone, and Spork. Her interests include
music, visual art, local history and culture, and the politics
of the U.S./Mexico border. She works as a book editor for Rio
Nuevo Publishers.
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