LM Rochefort

LM Rochefort is a bilingual award-winning poet/portfolio-careerist, living in Ottawa and Val-des-Monts, QC. She studied Journalism at Carleton U., worked in community mental health programs, the travel industry, translation and research. Her poem  HeLa’s Cells  was long-listed for the 2011 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in Geist, Arc,Truck as well as a dozen chapbooks. Lise has been Arc Poetry Magazine's Associate Poetry Editor since 2013. In 2014, her multi-media installation and video-poem  Escalator  was featured in Blink Gallery's 'Something Leads to Something Else' exhibition. She is a founding member of Ottawa's 'Ruby Tuesdays' poetry collective.