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 raised mostly in New Hampshire. She 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… more