Lesley Wheeler’s second poetry collection, Heterotopia, was named winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize and is forthcoming in the spring of 2010. Wheeler is also the author of Heathen (C&R Press, 2009),the chapbook Scholarship Girl (Finishing Line, 2007), and a work of criticism, Voicing American Poetry (Cornell University Press, 2008). She is a professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.  

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