lisazmfa@aol.com Lisa Zimmerman is a Phi Beta Kappa
graduate with a B.A. in English and History from Colorado State University and
an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis. She won
Redbook magazine's short story contest in 1986 and her first poetry collection
was published in 1987. Her poems and fiction have appeared in numerous
magazines and anthologies including "Mediphors," "Poetry
Motel," "Many Mountains Moving," and the "Colorado
Review". Her collection Traveling Among the Animals is
forthcoming
from Pudding House Press.
Lisa has taught writing workshops from K-12 in Fort Collins
area schools and is also a residency artist with Young Audiences, this country's
leading source of arts-in-education programs and services. She has been
the
poet-in-residence at schools in Brighton, Aurora, and Idalia, and has twice been
a teaching artist at the Aesthetic Education Institute of Colorado. In
May, 1999, she was one of several Young Audiences' artists chosen to work
with students and teachers from Columbine High School following the shooting in
Littleton.
Lisa was the Director of the Poetry and Prose Reading Series
at Bas Bleu Theatre in Fort Collins from 1995-2001. She lives near a
small lake in North Fort Collins with her husband, their three children, and
many large and small pets.
