Lisa Jarnot is a poet and freelance horticulturist based in New York City. She received her BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Brown University in 1994. She has edited No Trees and Troubled Surfer as well as The Poetry Project Newsletter and An Anthology of New (American) Poetry (Talisman House Publishers, 1997). Between 1993 and 2004 she was a member of the performance group Vole, a folk-rock-poetry band she co-founded alongside musician and sociologist David Michalski. She is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), Ring of Fire (Zoland Books, 2001 and Salt Publishers, 2003), Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003), and Night Scenes (Flood Editions, 2008). Her biography of Robert Duncan is forthcoming in 2010. For more information, visit lisajarnot.com.