Lesley Wheeler is the author of the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds; five books of poetry, most recently The State She’s In; and the novel Unbecoming. Her poems and essays appear in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Poets & Writers, and Guernica, and her work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers Workshop. Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, she lives in Virginia and posts as @LesleyMWheeler.