Liz Ahl

Liz Ahl is the author of A Case for Solace (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2022), winner of the 2023 New Hampshire Literary Award for Poetry, and Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), as well as the chapbooks A Stanza is a Place to Stand (Seven Kitchens Press, 2023), Home Economics (Seven Kitchens Press, 2016), Talking About the Weather (Seven Kitchens Press, 2012), Luck (Pecan Grove Press, 2010), and A Thirst That’s Partly Mine (winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press chapbook
contest).

Her poems have appeared in numerous literary journals, among them Prairie Schooner, Sinister Wisdom, Lavender Review, Measure, Rogue Agent, West Trestle Review, Nimrod, and Crab Orchard Review. Her work has also been included in a number of anthologies, including Outer Space: 100 Poems (Cambridge University Press, 2022), This Assignment is So Gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013), COVID Spring: Granite State Pandemic Poems (Hobblebush Books, 2020), and Nasty Women Poets: An Unapologetic Anthology of Subversive Verse (Lost
Horse Press, 2017), among others.

She has been awarded residencies at Playa, Jentel, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. Educated at Emerson College (BFA), the University of Pittsburgh (MFA) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (Ph.D.), she taught writing at Plymouth State University in Plymouth NH for 25 years.