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Lisa Russ Spaar
Biography
Lisa Russ Spaar is the author/editor of more than ten books of poetry and criticism, most recently Madrigalia: New & Selected Poems (Persea, 2021) and a novel, Paradise Close (Persea, 2022). Her honors include a Rona Jaffe Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is a professor of English at the University of Virginia, where she has taught since 1993.
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