Lisa Dordal is a poet and teacher based in Nashville, Tennessee. She received a Master of Fine Arts (in poetry) from Vanderbilt University in 2011 and a Master of Divinity, also from Vanderbilt, in 2005. She teaches in the English Department at Vanderbilt.

A Pushcart Prize nominee and the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Robert Watson Poetry Prize, her poetry has appeared in a variety of journals including Best New Poets 2015, Cave Wall, CALYX, Ninth Letter, Rove Poetry, The Greensboro Review, Vinyl Poetry, Nimrod, storySouth, Connotation Press, and The Feminist Wire.

On this episode of Transmission, Lisa reads from her first full-length collection of poetry, Mosaic of the Dark, available from Black Lawrence Press.