Lisa Malinowski Steinman is the author of four books about poetry and five volumes of poetry, most recently An Invitation to Poetry (from Blackwell/Wiley) and Absence and Presence (from the University of Tampa). Her work has received recognition from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among other places. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Notre Dame Review, Chariton Review, Prairie Schooner, Chicago Review, Epoch, Michigan Quarterly, Boulevard, Threepenny Review, The Massachusetts Review and Quarterly West. She co-edits the poetry magazine, Hubbub.