Poet Luisa A. Igloria was selected by a panel of judges (former UK poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott) as the 2015 (inaugural) winner of the Resurgence Poetry Prize, the world’s first major ecopoetry award. Luisa is the author of the following chapbooks: Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages Press, 2017), Check & Balance (Moria Poetry/Locofo Chaps, 2017), and the eChapbook Bright as Mirrors Left in the Grass (Kudzu House Press, spring 2015); and the full-length poetry books Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (selected by Mark Doty for the 2014 May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press), Night Willow (Phoenicia Publishing, 2014), Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press), Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005) as 8 well as 8 other books. When she isn’t writing, reading, or teaching, she cooks with her family, hand-binds books, knits, listens to tango music, and keeps her radar tuned for cool lizard sightings.
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Luisa also posts photo blips on Blipfoto at The Lizard Meanders. Since November 2010, she has been writing (at least) a poem a day, and these are archived at Dave Bonta’s Via Negativa site.