Lisa Sewell

Lisa Sewell is the author of five poetry collections, including Flood Plain (Grid Books, 2025) and Mean Season (The Word Works, 2024).

Sewell has been the recipient of support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Leeway Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She has held residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, Yaddo, Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, and the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. 

Sewell teaches in the English department at Villanova University and divides her time between Philadelphia and White Salmon, Washington.