Lisa Fishman has published seven poetry collections, including Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition (Wave Books, 2020). Her work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers and has appeared in such journals as Granta, VOLT, jubilat, Touch the Donkey, Denver Quarterly, and American Letters & Commentary. With roots in both Montreal and Michigan, she now lives on a farm in Wisconsin and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.