Lisa Bickmore is a poet, video artist, scholar and artist of the book, and teacher. She grew up living all over the United States and in Japan. She is the author of three books of poems: Haste (Signature Books, 1994), flicker, which won the 2014 Antivenom Prize from Elixir Press, and Ephemerist (Red Mountain Press, June 2017).
Her poetry, scholarship, and video work have been published in Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Tar River Poetry; Sugar House Review; SouthWord; Caketrain; Hunger Mountain Review; Terrain.org; Bite Size Poems project (Utah Arts Council); Quarterly West; The Moth; MappingSLC.org; Fire in the Pasture: 21st Century Mormon Poets; and elsewhere. In 2015, her poem 'Eidolon' was awarded the Ballymaloe International Poetry Award.
Bickmore’s work has been recognized with the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Artist Award in the Literary Arts in 2008, and more recently was named Salt Lake Community College’s first Poet Laureate. As laureate, she founded a reading series, which has featured nationally noted emerging writers, and has founded SLCC’s Community Anthology, a student-edited and published collection of work from SLCC’s broad community. In the summer of 2018, she co-directed an NEH Summer Institute for College and University Faculty, “The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures.” She has served on several community boards and arts advisory groups.
She earned a B.A. and an M.A. from Brigham Young University. Currently, she is a Professor of English at Salt Lake Community College, where she was the recipient of the SLCC Foundation Teaching Excellence Award in 2006. She teaches writing of all sorts, as well as publication studies, and is one of the founders of the SLCC Publication Center, a multi-function maker space that facilitates learning about the production and circulation of digital, print, and hybrid texts.
She lives in West Jordan, Utah.
Works
Bibliography
- Ephemerist, Red Mountain Press (Santa Fe, NM), 2017.
- Flicker, Elixir Press (Denver, CO), 2016. Winner of the 2014 Antivenom Prize (George Kalamaras, judge). Finalist, Association of Mormon Letters 2016 Poetry Award.
- Haste, Signature Books (Salt Lake City, UT), 1994.
Podcasts, Interviews, Performances
- Words Fall In: A Segullah Podcast, October 30, 2019.
- Lisa talks poetry on KRCL, Radioactive, April 24, 2018 (extended interview here)
- Lisa talks poetry on KRCL, Radioactive, April 19, 2017
- Lisa talks poetry and Utah Writers Resist, Radioactive, January 9, 2017
- Lisa reads at Helicon West (with Liz Kay), October 13, 2016
- Lisa reads at Brigham Young University, September 16, 2016
- Interview with Claire Moran, KMSU Weekly Reader, aired on February 4, 2016. 'Concord,' featured in Verse Daily, February 4, 2016. Talk, 'Creativity in Four Metaphors,' at Salt Lake Community College. December 1, 2015