Lisa Couturier

Lisa Couturier is a writer, poet and animal advocate. Her collection of essays, THE HOPES OF SNAKES (Beacon, 2006), is described as “beautiful, intelligent, and literary.” Her collection of poems, ANIMALS / BODIES (2014), “gets right to the beating heart of what it means to meet, to lose, or to be a living creature” and won the 2015 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from the New England Poetry Club. A 2012 Pushcart Prize winner for her essay “Dark Horse” and a 2022 finalist for the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction, Couturier is a notable essayist in Best American Essays, 2004, 2006 and 2011. Her work has appeared in “Orion,” the National Geographic Society, The New York Zoological Society’s “Wildlife Conservation,” the American Nature Writing series, “Minding Nature,” “City Creatures,” “Gargoyle,” “The Mid-Atlantic Review,” and “Passager,” among other publications and anthologies. A writer with the Sowell Family Collection in Literature, Community & the Natural World, Couturier divides her time between Manhattan and Maryland, where she lives on a nationally acclaimed Agricultural Reserve with her horses, two black vultures, and a beloved family of crows who sometimes bring her gifts.