Lisa Nell Samuels is an American–New Zealand experimental poet and academic, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland.
She has published a number of books of poetry, an experimental novel, and adapted one poem into a soundscape and a short film.
Samuels completed a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by a Master of Arts and a PhD titled Poetic Arrest: Laura Riding, Wallace Stevens, and the Modernist Afterlife at the University of Virginia.
Samuels' 2009 book Tomorrowland has been adapted into a CD soundscape and a film, directed by Wes Tank.
"[5] In 2009, Samuels' poetry featured alongside that of Tusiata Avia, James Milne, Jeffery McCaleb and Michael White in a poster campaign, plastering poems around 13 New Zealand locations and in Nashville, Tennessee.