Lisa Hase-Jackson is author of Flint & Fire (The Word Works, 2019), winner of the Hilary Tham Capital Collection prize, and Insomnia in Another Town (Clemson University Press, 2024), which won the Converse MFA Alumni Prize for Poetry, received honorable mention for the 2025 Hefner Heitz Kansa Book Award in Poetry, and was awarded the Nelson Poetry Book Award (KAC 2025). She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Lisa’s poetry explores the complexities of interpersonal relationships and the opaque nature of family history tenderness and clarity while investigating place and displacement; animal life and strange weathers; the exigencies of race, class, and gender as childhood memories emit a dark radiance by which to navigate the present. Born in Portland, Oregon and raised in the Midwest and Southwest, Lisa currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband, poet Gary Jackson, and two adorable cats.
Lisa’s poetry explores the complexities of interpersonal relationships and the opaque nature of family history tenderness and clarity while investigating place and displacement; animal life and strange weathers; the exigencies of race, class, and gender as childhood memories emit a dark radiance by which to navigate the present. Born in Portland, Oregon and raised in the Midwest and Southwest, Lisa currently lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with her husband, poet Gary Jackson, and two adorable cats.
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