Shara Lessley

About me

Introduction is the author of TWO-HEADED NIGHTINGALE and a recipient of the Stegner, O'Connor, Tickner and Diane Middlebrook poetry fellowships, as well as the “Discovery”/The Nation prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in Ploughshares, The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review and New England Review, among others. She currently lives in the Middle East and teaches online at Stanford University's Writer's Studio.