About

Polymath Poet, Recovering Engineer

Lisa Rosenberg is a multi-genre author and former space program engineer. Trained as a physicist, she works from lifelong engagement with design, systems, and scale. She integrates diverse functional expertise to foster process awareness and fluency. Across disciplines, her work asks how we perceive, build, and inhabit complex systems.

Lisa is the author of the poetry collections Weeds and Stars (Spring 2026) and A Different Physics (2018), as well as essays spanning craft, memoir, science, and satire. Her poetry is widely recognized as formally grounded work emerging from concurrent careers in engineering-physics and literary arts. 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 writing explores 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 in aerospace, Lisa focused on development, design, and production of solar arrays for the International Space Station and other satellites. She later founded a product strategy and development consulting practice serving companies in multiple technology sectors, with a concurrent practice in landscape design. 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. Through public talks, workshops, and essays, she addresses issues of local and global concern with a focus on process and systems skills essential to integrative and ecological thinking. Her public lectures at venues such as SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Chabot Planetarium, festivals, and conferences engage specialist and generalist audiences alike. Across formats, her offerings combine strengths of compositional arts, systems thinking, problem-solving, and design.

Lisa’s literary publications include Plume, The Threepenny Review, POETRY, Terrain.org, The Common, Organizational Aesthetics, and several anthologies. Her publication and collaboration credits in solid state technology include international trade and peer-reviewed journals. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lisa is a longtime part-time resident of Ilia, Greece.