Lisa Fay Coutley
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Education |
| Occupation | Teacher / Writer |
| Location | Michigan's Upper Peninsula |
| Introduction | My poems have been awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, scholarships to the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers' conferences, and an Academy of American Poets Levis Prize. I am the author of Errata, winner of the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award, selected by Adrienne Su (Southern Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2015). My chapbook, In the Carnival of Breathing, won the Fall 2009 Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and Back-Talk, won the ROOMS Chapbook Contest (Articles Press, 2010). I hold an MFA from Northern Michigan University, where I served as poetry editor for Passages North, and a PhD from the University of Utah, where I served as poetry editor for Quarterly West. At present, I am the Visiting Assistant Professor in Poetry at the University of Oregon. |
| Interests | Shooting pool, hiking, lake-jumping, rollerblading, traveling, cooking. |
| Favorite Movies | Garden State, Pride and Prejudice, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Practical Magic, Casablanca, Benny and Joon, Terms of Endearment, Sybil, Creepshow, The Twilight Zone. |
| Favorite Music | Aimee Mann, The Shins, Ani DiFranco, Joss Stone, MJB, Tori Amos, Patsy Cline, Ella, Billie, Etta, Sarah McLachlan, The Postal Service, The Beatles, John Lennon. |
| Favorite Books | The Winter of Our Discontent, Sula, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Crime and Punishment, David Copperfield, The Tenants of Wildfell Hall, Divining Women, The Road, Ariel, What the Living Do, As I Lay Dying |
When you open your eyes underwater, do you ever worry that you'll drown?
Only when I've forgotten to put my eyes in.