Lisa Sewell

two-week Curated artist in residence, Spring 2019

Lisa Sewell is a poet and the author of Impossible Object, which won the 2014 Tenth Gate prize from The Word Works, as well as The Way Out, Name Withheld, and Long Corridor, which received the 2009 Keystone Chapbook award from Seven Kitchens Press. She lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Villanova University.

Much of her work focuses on place, its ecological history, and the non-human world. At Oak Spring, she spent much of her time in the library researching early natural histories and species catalogues, where she was particularly influenced by the work of naturalist and botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian.

To learn more about Liza’s work, click here.