Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist.
Her poem, Temple Gaudete, published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize.
Spaar has also edited several anthologies, including All That Mighty Heart: London Poems, which Billy Collins says "gathers [a] mighty swirl of poetry into a gorgeous volume whose variety and heft rival the city itself— its smoke, roar, and flow.
"[2] Spaar graduated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia with a B.A.
Spaar's books of poetry include Orexia (2017),[3] Vanitas, Rough (2012), Satin Cash: Poems 2008, Blue Venus (2004), and Glass Town (1999), for which she won the Rona Jaffe Award for Emerging Women Writers in 2000.