Lesley Wheeler's previous collections include HETEROTOPIA, winner of the 2009 Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize; The Receptionist and Other Tales, a James Tiptree, Jr. Award Honor Book; and Heathen. Her most recent critical study is Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present, and she blogs about poetry at lesleywheeler(dot)org. Winner of an Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia, and of fellowships from Fulbright and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Wheeler teaches at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.