Lisa DesRochers-Short is a disabled poet and artist born and raised in rural Maine. She received her BA in English from University of Maine at Orono and her MFA in Poetry from George Mason University where she was the 2019-2020 Thesis Fellow. Lisa was the recipient of the 2019 Alan Cheuse International Travel Award. Lisa is currently the Poetry Editor for an anthology of disabled writers with Stillhouse Press and a reader with So to Speak. Her work has appeared in Thin Air, Permafrost, Common Ground Review, Breakwater Review, and others.