Shara Lessley is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford. Her awards include the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship from Colgate University, the 2006 Discovery/_The Nation _prize, and the 2007 Moondancer Fellowship from The Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow. Shara’s poems have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Threepenny Review, The Southeast Review, The Nation, Blackbird, Gulf Coast, and elsewhere. (updated 8/2007)