Liza Flum on being a poet and her fascination with hummingbirds

Liza Flum is a poet and teacher living in Geneva, New York. She holds an MFA in poetry from Cornell, and her poems appear in journals including Narrative, The Tampa Review, The Southeast Review, Lambda Literary, and The Collagist. She is a recipient of a Barbara Deming individual artist grant, and her work has been supported by fellowships from the Saltonstall Foundation, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is currently a PhD student in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah where she is a Vice Presidential Research Fellow. She works as a poetry editor for Omnidawn Publishing.