About the Author

Lisa Gill has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, a Gratitude Award from New Mexico Literary Arts, and an Achievement Award from the University of New Mexico, where she earned an MFA with distinction in 2010. She has published four previous books of poetry, Red as a Lotus: Letters to a Dead Trappist; Mortar & Pestle; Dark Enough; and The Relenting: A Play of Sorts.