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Lisa Martin-DeMoor

Lisa Martin-DeMoor’s poetry has appeared in numerous Canadian literary journals, including Arc, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review and Prairie Fire. A poetry chapbook, Assertions of Likeness, is forthcoming from Gaspereau Press in the Fall of 2009.

Lisa teaches Creative Writing at The King’s University College and Concordia University College in Edmonton. She is in the process of co-editing (with Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst) an anthology of essays on miscarriage and stillbirth entitled, How to Expect What You’re Not Expecting, and she is currently at work on a novel.

Awards

Elora Arts Council Poetry contest, Elora Arts Council, 2005

International Poem of the Year, Editor’s Choice, ARC Poetry Magazine, 2007

Literary Non-Fiction Contest, PRISM magazine, 2007, short-listed

“Short Grain” Prose Poem Contest, Grain Magazine, 2008

Stephan G. Stephannson Award, Writers Guild of Alberta, 2009

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Lisa Martin-DeMoor

Poetry

One crow sorrow, Brindle & Glass, 2008