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Lisa Fishman lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin and teaches at Columbia College, Chicago. By the terms of Canada's amended Citizenship Act of 2009, Fishman, whose paternal family is from Montréal, has Canadian citizenship pending. She is the author of three earlier collections of poetry: The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta Press, 2007); Dear, Read (Ahsahta, 2002); The Deep Heart's Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues Press, 1996) and most recently the chapbook, at the same time as scattering (Albion Books, 2010). In Orfordville, she lives on a farm and orchard she and her husband, Henry Morren, started in 1998; in Madison, they live with the poet Richard Meier near the Yahara River. She has a six-year-old son, James Fishman-Morren.