Lisa Norris’s book Women Who Sleep With Animals won the 2010 Stephen F. Austin State University (SFASU) Fiction Prize and was published by SFASU Press. Toy Guns: Stories won the 1999 Willa Cather Fiction Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Press. Poems and essays have appeared in literary magazines including Smartish Pace, Shenandoah, Fourth Genre, Poet Lore, Ascent, and others. She taught at Virginia Tech for 15 years and now is an associate professor of English at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.