Lisa Williams
Charles J. Luellen Professor of English • Director of Creative Writing Program
Offices & Programs
Education
BA: Belmont University
MFA: poetry, University of Virginia
MA: University of Cincinnati
BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Williams is Charles J. Luellen Professor of English and director of the creative writing program at Centre College, where she has taught since 2001.
PUBLICATIONS
Williams has published three books of poems: Gazelle in the House (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2014), Woman Reading to the Sea (2008), and The Hammered Dulcimer (1998). Since 2015, she has served as Series Editor for The University Press of Kentucky New Poetry and Prose Series. Her poems have been featured in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Orion, The New Republic, Best American Poetry 2009, and on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily, as well as other anthologies and magazines. Her essay reviews of contemporary poets have appeared on The Rumpus.com, on Poetry Daily, in The Cincinnati Review, Orion, and The Hollins Critic.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
Williams has been a recipient of the Rome Prize, the Barnard Women Poets Prize, the May Swenson Poetry Award, and an Al Smith Individual Artist Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council.