Lisa Fay Coutley is the author of In the Carnival of Breathing, winner of the Black River Chapbook Competition (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), and Back-Talk, which won the ROOMS Chapbook Contest (Articles Press, 2010). She holds an MFA from Northern Michigan University, where she was poetry editor for Passages North, and is presently a doctoral fellow and poetry editor for Quarterly West at the University of Utah. Her work has appeared most recently or is forthcoming in Best New Poets, Third Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, Barn Owl Review, RHINO, and on Verse Daily.
