Lisa Low

Lisa Low is the author of Crown for the Girl Inside (2023), winner of the Vinyl 45 Chapbook Contest from YesYes Books. Her poems have appeared in Copper Nickel, Ecotone, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and elsewhere, and her essay “How to Apologize” won the 2020 Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize. She is the recipient of a 2023 Pushcart Prize and has an MFA from Indiana University and a PhD from the University of Cincinnati, where she served as associate editor at The Cincinnati Review. Her debut full-length poetry collection Replica is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in 2026. Originally from Maryland, she lives in Chicago.