Lisa Zimmerman was educated at Colorado State University and Washington University in St. Louis where she received her M.F.A. She is the recipient of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry for her book, How The Garden Looks From Here. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in many journals. She has published two chapbooks, most recently, Traveling Among the Animals (Pudding House Publications, 2002). In 2003, her poetry was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She teaches writing at the University of Northern Colorado.

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In Lisa Zimmerman’s poems there is much sorrow, often hinted and muted, but there is more joy, spoken and sung. The speaker in these poems loves her children, the sky, the lake, and her horses. She lives in the world as if it’s the only one; the things of her life matter-the worth of each blade of grass, each bird, each dream, each word is tangible, weighted, and given to us in a poetry measured and strong. These poems know that the truths of our lives, or that which is as close to truth as our words and wisdom get, lie in the specific, the attention to detail-frozen wash on the line, the mare in the field, the young daughter’s coming into the world where the dinosaurs are all dead, but there’s nothing we can do to bring them back,nothing we can do at all except learn that “what we love/moves on...longbefore we ever hold it in our arms.” In this first full-length collection,Zimmerman promises us more to come, a garden of riches, a voice that renders the livable world into usable wisdom.

-Rick Campbell, Anhinga Press