Liz Countryman is the author of Green Island, selected by Julie Carr for the 2022 Berkshire Prize from Tupelo Press, and A Forest Almost, selected by Graham Foust for the 2016 Subito Press Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, AGNI, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, Lana Turner, and The Canary. She is the recipient of scholarships and fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and MacDowell. A Forest Almost was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Di Castagnola Award.

Countryman received her M.F.A. from the University of Maryland and her Ph.D. from the University of Houston, where she served as poetry editor for Gulf Coast. She lives in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is Associate Professor at the University of South Carolina and coeditor, with her husband Samuel Amadon, of the poetry journal Oversound.