The Light at The Edge of Everything

Poetry. Poetry. "Exquisite lyrics. A brave and lovely book. Deeply human meditations on joy, loss, love, suffering, but never defeat. Zimmerman figures out 'the mysterious ties that bind us together'"--Billy Collins.

Lisa Zimmerman received her M.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in the Colorado Review, Redbook, The Sun, River Styx, Atlanta Review, The Portland Review, and Indiana Review, among other journals. Her poetry has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks. In 2004 her poetry collection How the Garden Looks From Here won the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award. Her most recent collection The Light at the Edge of Everything was just published by Anhinga Press. She teaches composition and creative writing at the University of Northern Colorado and lives in Fort Collins.