Shara Lessley

Shara Lessley is the author of the poetry collections The Explosive Expert’s Wife (University of Wisconsin Press, 2018) and Two-Headed Nightingale (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2012). She is, alongside Bruce Snider, coeditor of the essay collection The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press, 2018). A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, Lessley’s work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, Vermont Studio Center, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Northern Virginia where she is an editor and teacher.