Lisa Samuels
Shearsman Titles
Paradise for Everyone
About the author
Lisa Samuels grew up in the United States, Sweden, and the Middle East. She has a PhD from the University of Virginia, where she wrote her dissertation on Laura Riding, Wallace Stevens, and academic poetry criticism. She publishes on Riding and other modernist and contemporary poets as well as on subjects such as linguistic beauty, poetic analysis, and intellectual property. She taught in Utah, Virginia, Alabama, Kentucky, and Michigan before moving to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2000 to teach poetry writing and literature. In 2006, she took up a position as Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Lisa Samuels has published five poetry books: Letters (Meow, 1996), The Seven Voices (O Books, 1998), War Holdings (Pavement Saw, 2003), in addition to her two Shearsman collections shown above, as well as an annotated critical edition of Laura Riding's 1928 manifesto Anarchism Is Not Enough (University of California Press, 2001).