Lisa Rosenberg

Lisa Rosenberg is the author of the poetry collection A Different Physics (Red Mountain Press), and recent essays spanning memoir, travel, science, and satire. A former space program engineer trained as a physicist, she has received a Djerassi ‘Leonardo’ Residency, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and MOSAIC America Fellowship. In 2017-2018 she served as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California. Lisa’s work appears in journals and anthologies including The Common, Terrain.org, POETRY, The Threepenny Review, Organizational Aesthetics, and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology.

  • Is a Rose

    O’Keefe’s opens in the troposphere, blooms like smoke.