Lisa Rhoades is the author of two full length collections of poetry, The Long Grass, (Saint Julian Press, 2020) and Strange Gravity, (Bright Hill Press Poetry Award Series, 2004). A pediatric nurse in Manhattan, she lives on Staten Island with her spouse. Individual poems have appeared widely including Calyx, American Journal of Poetry, Saranac Review, and Prime Number and are forthcoming in Cider Press Review, Nimrod and The Southern Review.