Shara Lessley

Shara Lessley is the author of The Explosive Expert’s Wife (University of Wisconsin, 2018) and Two-Headed Nightingale (New Issues, 2012), and co-editor of The Poem’s Country (Pleiades, 2018). Lessley’s work has appeared in the Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies, as well as The Atlantic, American Poetry Review, AGNI, The Nation, and The Kenyon Review, among others. She is the creative nonfiction editor for West Branch and consulting editor for Acre Books.