Shara Lessley

Shara Lessley, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, is the author of Two-Headed Nightingale (New Issues, 2012). Her awards include the Mary Wood Fellowship from Washington College, an Artist Fellowship from the State of North Carolina, the Diane Middebrook Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin, Colgate University’s O’Connor Fellowship, The Gilman School’s Tickner Fellowship, and a “Discovery”/The Nation prize. A recent resident of the Middle East, Shara was awarded a 2015 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts, and is currently editing an anthology of essays on poetry and place with the poet Bruce Snider.