Lisa Jarnot is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Some Other Kind of Mission (Burning Deck Press, 1996), Ring of Fire (Zoland Books, 2001; Salt, 2003), Black Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003), and Night Scenes (Flood Editions, 2008). The University of California Press published her biography of the San Francisco poet Robert Duncan in 2012, and City Lights will publish a Selected Poems in 2013.