Shara Lessley

Shara Lessley is the author of The Explosive Expert’s Wife, winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton prize, Two-Headed Nightingale, and co-editor of The Poem’s Country. A former Stegner Fellow at Stanford, her awards include an NEA, Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College, Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellowship from University of Wisconsin, O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, and “Discovery”/The Nation prize. Shara’s work has been published in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Recent essays appear in Kenyon Review, Bennington Review, New England Review, and Cincinnati Review. Shara is Creative Nonfiction Editor for West Branch and Consulting Editor for Acre Books.