Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist, and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she has published nine books of poetry, most recently Boat (2022); two books of essays, Nilling (2012), and Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture (2003); and her book Anemones: A Simone Weil Project was published by If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam, in 2021. She has been a visiting poet and professor at Princeton University, University of Cambridge, UC Berkeley, Piet Zwart Institute, Simon Fraser University, and California College of the Arts, among other institutions. In 2017 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018 the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel The Baudelaire Fractal was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has been published in French, Swedish, and Turkish translations. Her second novel, Riverwork, is now available from Coach House Books.