Lisa Robertson

Born in Toronto and living for many years in Vancouver, Canadian writer Lisa Robertson was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing and Artspeak Gallery. Her books of poetry include XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, The Weather, Rousseau's Boat, and The Men: A Lyric Book. She writes essays and collaborative texts for the visual arts, and these have been collected in the book Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture.

In 1999 she was awarded the Judith E Wilson Visiting Fellowship in Poetry by the University of Cambridge. In Spring 2003 she worked as visiting poet/lecturer at University of California at San Diego. In Fall 2006 she was the Roberta C. Holloway lecturer in the practice of poetry at University of California at Berkeley. She also has taught at Capilano College, American University of Paris, Dartington College for the Arts, and at Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.

Robertson is on the advisory board of Emily Carr Institute Press, which publishes artists' books, monographs, and music projects.