Liz Ahl is one of those people you meet when you're young and then spend the rest of your life glad you know her. She's talented, accomplished, and wicked funny. Meeting up with her at AWP is always a highlight of the conference. There's much heartache in her latest book, but so much beauty too. Yes, it found a spot in the suitcase on the trip home. Worth it!
Liz is the author of A Case for Solace (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), Home Economics (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016), Talking About the Weather (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012), Luck (Pecan Grove Press, 2010), and A Thirst That’s Partly Mine (winner of the 2007 Slapering Hol Press chapbook contest).
Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Sinister Wisdom, Measure, Rogue Agent, West Trestle Review, Nimrod, and Crab Orchard Review.
Her work has also been included in several anthologies, including Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press, 2022), This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Hobblebush Books, 2020), Visiting Bob: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Bob Dylan (New Rivers Press, 2018) and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost Horse Press, 2017), among others.
She has been awarded residencies at Playa, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. She teaches writing at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire.
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