Lisa Zerkle


Lisa Zerkle’s poems and reviews have appeared in The Collagist, Comstock Review, Southern Poetry Anthology, Broad River Review, Tar River Poetry, Nimrod, storySouth, Cider Press Review, Crucible, and Main Street Rag, among others. Her poem “Relics of the Great Acceleration” won the North Carolina Writer’s Network 2017 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. She has served as President of the North Carolina Poetry Society, community columnist for The Charlotte Observer, and founding editor of Kakalak, an anthology of art and poetry from the Carolinas. She is the curator of 4X4CLT, a public art and poetry series of the Charlotte Center for Literary Arts.