Lisa Allen Ortiz

Lisa Allen Ortiz is a poet from Mendocino County, California, with an MFA from Pacific University (2014). Her collection Guide to the Exhibit won the 2016 Perugia Press Prize. Her later book Stem won the 2021 Idaho Prize. She also co-translated Blanca Varela's Selected Poems, The Blinding Star, which won the 2021 Northern California Book Award for Poetry in Translation. She has served as a Visiting Poet at Smith College, and her poems and stories have appeared in journals including Beloit Poetry Journal and Colorado Review.