Lesley Wheeler is the author of five previous poetry collections, including The State She’s In and Heterotopia. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Her work has received support from the Fulbright Foundation, Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers Workshop, and her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review Online, Poets & Writers, Guernica, Massachusetts Review, Ecotone, and other magazines. She is the poetry editor of Shenandoah.