Elisabeth Blair

Elisabeth Blair is a poet, editor, and workshop leader with an extensive background in music and the visual arts. Her publications include full-length poetry memoir because God loves the wasp (Unsolicited Press 2022), two chapbooks—We He She/It (Dancing Girl Press 2016) and without saying (Ethel Press 2020)—and poems in a variety of journals, including Harpur Palate, Feminist Studies, cream city review, and Juked. She has been artist-in-residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Wildacres, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, and ACRE. She writes a monthly subscription newsletter, lullabies & alarms, about the craft of poetry. From 2018–21 she was honored to be a poetry workshop leader for the Burlington Writers Workshop. In 2022 she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to complete her second book, a poetry novel.