BIO
Lisa D. Chavez was born on the winter solstice in  Los Angeles and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska.  She has published two books of poetry:  Destruction Bay (West End Press)  and In an Angry Season (U. of Arizona), and has been included in such anthologies as   Floricanto Si! A Collection of Latina Poetry , The Floating Borderlands:  25 Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, and American Poetry:  The Next Generation .   Her creative nonfiction has been published in Fourth Genre, The Clackamas Literary Review and other places.  Before joining the creative writing program at University of New Mexico, she taught at the University of Alaska, in Poland with the Peace Corps, in Japan, in Rochester, NY and in Albion, Michigan.   She lives in the mountains outside Albuquerque with her dogs, a German Shepherd, a Shiba Inu, and a pit bull mix,  and has just finished a third book of poetry called An Atlas of Desire.

  Photo by Mike Sebacher, Shiprock, New Mexico
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