Leslie Shipman, Assistant Director at the National Book Foundation, NYC, has been active in literary and educational programming for close to twenty years. Her poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including BOMB, The Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, Bellingham Review, Cortland Review and The Laurel Review, and has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2005. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, was the Alan Collins Tuition Scholar in Poetry at the Breadloaf Writers conference in 2008, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers.