Lisa Russ Spaar teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Satin Cash (Persea, 2008), Blue Venus (Persea, 2004), Glass Town (Red Hen, 1999), winner of the Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers, Blind Boy on Skates (U. of N. Texas, 1987) and Cellar (Alderman, 1983). Her poems appear in Smartish Pace, Issue 8. Her Smartish Pace reading on 3/19/09 appears in the media section of this website.
