Lisa Allen Ortiz is the author of Stem, winner of the 2021 Idaho Prize judged by Ilya Kaminsky and forthcoming from Lost Horse Press in 2022. Her first full length collection, Guide to the Exhibit won the 2016 Perugia Press Prize, and she co-translated The Blinding Star, Selected Poems of Blanca Varela which was published by Tolsun Books in 2021. She lives in Santa Cruz County where she grows and eats an astonishing amount of vegetables and runs around in the forest.

Other poems by Lisa Allen Ortiz in Verse Daily:
April 22, 2019:   "Later, I Learned to Speak Without a Tongue." "But first I wrote backwards...."
December 20, 2016:   "Ursa Major" "The bears again..."
January 11, 2014:   "Acre" "If we had one, I said, we could grow lettuce and peas..."
October 18, 2013:   "The Ventriloquist's Heart" "At dinner I lean in close...."
October 31, 2009:   "The Tortoise Survives the Fire" "He's at my friend's house now...."

Books by Lisa Allen Ortiz:

Other poems on the web by Lisa Allen Ortiz:
Three poems
"Algorithm"
Three poems
"Patois"
"Why We're Going to Church"
Two poems

Lisa Allen Ortiz's Website.

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