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Lisa Norris has seen
life from several parts of the country and the world. Growing up as
part of a Navy family, she lived in four states and the Philippines.
After she earned a forestry degree from Virginia Tech and worked as a
fire dispatcher, trail ranger and biological technician, she moved to
Idaho and earned an M.A. in English from Idaho State University. She
taught English and creative writing in Idaho and Oregon for ten years,
then moved to Washington, D.C., where she completed her M.F.A. in
Creative Writing from American University. Except for a year as an
assistant professor at Minnesota State University in Mankato, she taught at Virginia Tech from 1991-2007, spending summer weeks in the
Pacific Northwest, where she met annually with the Free Range
Writers, featured in Poets and Writers May/June 2005 (“From the Garden to the Forest”). In 2007, she returned to the Pacific Northwest to teach writing and literature at Central Washington University in Ellensburg.
Her book Toy Guns won the Willa Cather Fiction Prize in 1999 and was published by Helicon Nine Press. Her stories, poems and creative nonfiction have been published in Fourth Genre, Ascent, Notre Dame Review, an anthology called Kiss Tomorrow Hello (Doubleday 2006) and others. Her son Will Stauffer-Norris is a young artist and filmmaker whose work can be seen at www.bananaproductions.net. You can contact Lisa at norrisL@cwu.edu The landscape photo above is by Greg Jahn. (http://www.gregjahnphoto.com)  |
