Lisa Bickmore is the author of three books of poems. The second, flicker (2016), won the 2014 Antivenom Prize (Elixir Press). She won the 2015 Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize for the poem “Eidolon,” which appears in her third collection, Ephemerist (Red Mountain Press). She is the founder/publisher of the new independent nonprofit Lightscatter Press. In July 2022, she was named the poet laureate for the state of Utah and in 2023 was awarded a fellowship from the Academy of American Poets for poets laureate.