Isaac Jarnot (formerly Lisa) was born in Buffalo, New York and educated at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of the several collections of poetry as well as the Bagley Wright Lecture Series book, Four Lectures (Wave Books, 2024), and The Ambassador from Venus, a biography of San Francisco poet Robert Duncan. He has been a visiting professor at Naropa University, Brooklyn College, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. He lives in Jackson Heights, Queens, holds a Masters of Divinity degree from New York Theological Seminary, is a PhD student in theology at Drew University, and is a minister at Safe Haven United Church of Christ.