Liza Wolff-Francis is the 8th Poet Laureate of Carrboro, North Carolina. She has an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She is a feminist ecopoet, facilitates ecopoetry workshops, and she has taught creative writing workshops for over a decade. She wrote the play “Border Rising” that was performed in three cities. She was co-director for the 2014 Austin International Poetry Festival and now works organizing the West End Poetry Festival with the Town of Carrboro and the Carrboro Poets Council. Her writing has most recently appeared in The Phare, North Carolina Literary Review, Wild Roof Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Walter Magazine. She has written poetry book reviews that have been published on Adroit, Compulsive Reader, and LitPub. She has a poetry chapbook titled Language of Crossing (Swimming with Elephants Publications, 2015) about the Mexico/U.S. border. This is her first full poetry collection.
Visit Liza’s website at:
www.lizawolff.com
Paperback: 86 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (August 23, 2024)