Lesley Wheeler

Lesley Wheeler’s most recent book is Poetry’s Possible Worlds, a memoir of reading poetry during a time of crisis. Her previous books include The State She’s In, her fifth poetry collection, and Unbecoming, her first novel. Her work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf, Sewanee Writers Workshop, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Wheeler’s poems and essays appear in Kenyon Review Online, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Poets & Writers, Guernica, Massachusetts Review, and other journals. Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, she lives in Lexington, Virginia. For more, visit lesleywheeler.org.