Autor/-in: Lisa Russ Spaar

Lisa Russ Spaar. is the author of a novel, Paradise Close. ; six acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems. ; and The Hide-and-Seek Muse: Annotations of Contemporary Poetry. , a collection of poetry history and criticism. She was a 2014 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. Spaar has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Library of Virginia Award for Poetry, and a Rona Jaffe Award, among other honors and awards. She is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia, where for many years she directed the MFA program.