Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet who now lives in France. She began publishing in the early 90s in Vancouver, where she worked for many years with the writer-run collective, Kootenay School of Writing, and in the artist-run centre community, writing texts for visual artists, a practice she continues, most recently completing an essayfor the Kunstweiher in Hamburg, for a sculptor and poet Karl Larsson. With Matthew Stadler, in 2013 she edited and annotated Revolution: A Reader, a 1200 page guide to how to live in the present. Her poetry books include Debbie:An Epic, The Weather, R's Boat and Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip. Enitharmon is now bringing out a British edition of The Men, first published in 2006 by Bookthug, who also published her 2012 book of essays, Nilling. Coach House books has just published the new long poem Cinema of the Present. In spring 2014, she was the Bain Swigget visiting Lecturer in Poetry at Princeton University. She currently teaches in the Master of Fine Arts programme at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.