Lisa Martin
Lisa Martin is the author of two full-length collections of poems, One Crow Sorrow (Brindle & Glass, 2008) and Believing Is Not The Same As Being Saved (University of Alberta Press, 2017). Her work has won a National Magazine Award for Personal Journalism and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. Her second collection of poetry was a finalist for the City of Edmonton Book Prize in 2018. She is the author of Creative Writing In Post-Secondary Education: Practice, Pedagogy, And Research (Bloomsbury, 2025), a blend of memoir and scholarly review. A Story Can Be Told About Pain (NeWest Press, 2025) is her first novel. She is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at MacEwan University.
