About Liz

Liz Robbins’; fourth full-length collection, Night Swimming, won the 2023 Cold Mountain Press Annual Book Contest. Her collaborative chapbook on mental health, Fire Carousel (with three poets and a photographer), is newly out from Main Street Rag Press (2023). Her third collection, Freaked, won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award, judged by Bruce Bond; her second collection, Play Button, won the Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her first collection is Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish (U Nebraska), and her chapbook, Girls Turned Like Dials, won the 8th Annual YellowJacket Press Prize.

Her poems have appeared in Adroit Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, Missouri Review, and Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac; her poems are in recent or forthcoming issues of Five Points, The Penn Review, Rattle, Salt Hill, and Tampa Review. She received a Pushcart nomination from Fugue, and has judged contests for Elixir Press, Ploughshares, and New Ohio Review. She lives in St. Augustine, Florida, where she works as an editor, as well as a poetry screener for Ploughshares.