Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of three collections of poetry: tether, forthcoming from Black Lawrence Press in 2020; Errata (Southern Illinois University Press, 2015), winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition; and In the Carnival of Breathing (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in AGNI, Black Warrior Review, Brevity, The Cincinnati Review, Narrative, Pleiades, and Passages North. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and is an assistant professor of poetry and creative nonfiction at the University of Nebraska Omaha.  

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