Baker Artist Portfolios

Leslie Harrison is the author of Reck (University of Akron Press, 2023), The Book of Endings (University of Akron Press, 2017), which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Displacement (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), which won the Bakeless Prize in poetry from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. 

She was born in Germany, and holds graduate degrees from The Johns Hopkins University and The University of California, Irvine. Poems have appeared in numerous journals including Poetry, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, FIELD, West Branch, Pleiades, Orion and elsewhere.
 
A former photojournalist, book designer and publishing manager, Harrison is professor of poetry and creative writing at Towson University. She was awarded a fellowship in literature from The National Endowment for the Arts, was a Philip Roth resident in poetry at Bucknell University, and, in 2019 she won a Mary Sawyers Baker Award from the Baker Artist Portfolios.