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.