Lisa Rizzo

Lisa Rizzo

Lisa Rizzo

Lisa Rizzo is a poet and middle school language arts teacher who manages to combine her love of words and poetry with her day job. Born in Texas, she grew up in Chicago and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area 32 years ago.  She now lives in San Carlos, CA. She is the author of In the Poem an Ocean(Big Table Publishing, 2011). Her work also has appeared in such journals as The Lucid Stone13th MoonWriting for Our Lives, Earth’s DaughtersBellowing Ark and Calyx Journal. After the 2011 AROHO retreat, Lisa became a co-contributor to the AROHO Speaks: Writer-to-Writer interview project (www.arohospeaks-writertowriter.posterous.com). Two of her poems received 1st and 2nd prizes in the 2012 Bay Area Poets Coalition Poetry Contest. She blogs at Poet Teacher Seeks World (www.poetteacherworld.blogspot.com) and can also be reached at www.lisarizzopoetry.com.

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