Lisa D. Chávez
Associate Professor

Office: Humanities 272
Hours:
Phone: 277-7456
E-Mail: contact by email.

Lisa D. Chávez was born in Los Angeles and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. She has published two books of poetry: Destruction Bay and In an Angry Season, and has been included in such anthologies as Floricanto Si! A Collection of Latina Poetry , The Floating Borderlands: 25 Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, and American Poetry: The Next Generation . Her creative nonfiction has been published in Fourth Genre, The Clackamas Literary Review and other places. Before coming to UNM, she taught at the University of Alaska, in Poland with the Peace Corps, in Japan and in Rochester, NY. In addition to creative writing, she is interested in multicultural American literature. She lives in the mountains with her dogs, a German Shepherd and a Shiba Inu, and has just finished a third book of poetry called An Atlas of Desire.