Lisa Birman, MFA Naropa University, is a poet and writer from Melbourne, Australia. She is Director and BA Coordinator of Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program as well as the Writing Faculty and Faculty Director for Naropa’s Study Abroad Program in Prague. She has taught at Naropa University, the University of Colorado, and several universities in Australia. She is co-editor of Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action, and her work has appeared in the Poetry Project Newsletter, 26, admit2, Square One, Thuggery & Grace and sub-scribe. Lisa is a freelance proofreader and copyeditor, and she is the co-founder of Movie Star Press. She teaches Collaboration/Crossings and Collisions for the MFA in Creative Writing.