Lisa Olstein is an American poet born in 1972. She grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Barnard College (1996) and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and other journals. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Writing Residency, and poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Sustainable Arts Foundation. Olstein has also worked with singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in the band Cold Satellite.