Lisa Rosenberg is a poet, essayist, and former space program engineer. She integrates expertise from writing, design, science, somatics, and arts to help writers and others develop process awareness and fluency. In 2017-2018 she served as Poet Laureate of San Mateo County, California. Her work has been recognized by a Djerassi Leonardo Residency, Wallace Stegner Fellowship, MOSAIC America Fellowship, and book honors for her collections Weeds and Stars (2026) and A Different Physics (2018).

Lisa’s work emerges from lifelong engagement with design, systems, and scale—from spacecraft subsystems and emergent technology markets, to landscape design and lyric form. She grew up with a machine shop, immersed in aviation and aerospace, and has studied fine and performing arts since childhood. She earned a private pilot’s license, B.S. in physics (French minor), and M.A. in creative writing. Her somatic studies include Aikido and practitioner training in the Feldenkrais® Method. Following a decade of engineering for commercial and NASA programs, including the International Space Station, she founded an independent consulting practice in technology strategy, product development, design, and marketing. With the poet laureate appointment, her offerings expanded to education, speaking, and public service.

Lisa’s poems explore nature, culture, interconnectedness, and how patterns recur across domains, moving fluidly from the subatomic to the cosmic. Her essays span memoir, science, satire, travel, and reflections on living part-time in rural Greece. Her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Plume, POETRY, Terrain.org, The Threepenny Review, The Common, Amsterdam Review, and several anthologies.