A native midwesterner, Lisa Ampleman (she/her) is the author of three full-length poetry collections—Mom in Space (LSU Press, 2024), Romances (LSU Press, 2020) and Full Cry (NFSPS Press, 2013)—and a chapbook, I’ve Been Collecting This to Tell You (Kent State University Press, 2012). A graduate of the PhD program at the University of Cincinnati, she served as assistant and associate editor of the Cincinnati Review from 2011-13. Her poems have appeared recenlty in journals such as 32 Poems, Colorado Review, Cortland Review, Ecotone, Georgia Review, The Rumpus, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily, and her prose in America, Miracle Monocle, museum of americana, and Shenandoah.
