About

Polymath Poet, Recovering Engineer

A multi-genre artist, author, and former space program engineer, Lisa Rosenberg works from the commonality of arts and sciences, bringing resources of design, systems, and compositional arts to a wide range of projects and conversations.

Lisa is the author of A Different Physics, an award-winning poetry collection shaped by immersion in disparate fields. With degrees in physics and creative writing, she draws on shared resources of arts and sciences, promoting polydisciplinary approaches to inquiry and enterprise. Her work has been recognized by a Djerassi Leonardo/ISAST Residency, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, and MOSAIC America Fellowship, appearing in magazines, anthologies, research journals, and trade features. Her poems and essays are grounded in musicality and everyday wonder, exploring natural and cultural landscapes, the influence of inherited models, and patterns of kinship and correspondence—from the cosmic to the mundane.

As a research engineer on NASA programs, Lisa focused on development, design, and production of solar arrays for the International Space Station and other satellites. She later founded a strategy consulting practice serving companies in multiple technology sectors. She holds a private pilot’s license, and trained as a practitioner in the Feldenkrais Method® of Somatic Education, which has profoundly influenced her work across disciplines. In 2017, she began public service, creating inclusive community programs as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California. Lisa speaks on the confluence of arts and sciences, bringing multidisciplinary perspective to issues of local and global concern, engaging specialist and generalist audiences at venues such as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Chabot Planetarium, speaker series, festivals, and conferences. Her talks and workshops combine strengths of compositional arts, systems thinking, problem-solving, and design.

Lisa’s publications include The Threepenny Review, POETRY, Terrain.org, The Common, Organizational Aesthetics, and California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology. Her personal and academic essays span memoir, travel, science, poetics, and satire. Earlier publications on solid state technology appeared in international trade and peer-reviewed journals. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lisa is a longtime part-time resident of Ilia, Greece.