Lisa Richter (she/her) is an award-winning poet, writer, teacher, and editor. She is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, including Closer to Where We Began (Tightrope Books, 2017) and Nautilus and Bone (Frontenac House, October 2020), winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry (US), the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry, the Alberta Book Publishing Association’s Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry, and longlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. Her poetry has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize, won first place in the CV2 Magazine Two-Day Poem Contest, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, a National Magazine Award and the Best of the Net. Her third book, Sublinary (spring 2026), now available with University of Alberta Press, was included in 49th Shelf’s Most Anticipated Spring 2026 Poetry Preview.