Lesley Wheeler is an American

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and

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. She is the

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Education and career

Wheeler was born in Baldwin,

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. She earned her bachelor's degree from

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and her Ph.D. from

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. She is currently the Henry S. Fox Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in

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. In 2015, Wheeler joined the board of trustees of the

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as the Mid Atlantic Regional Council Chair.

Works

Wheeler has published four books of poetry: ''Radioland'' (Barrow Street 2015), ''The Receptionist and Other Tales'' (Aqueduct 2012), ''Heterotopia'' (Barrow Street 2010), and ''Heathen'' (C&R 2009). She has published two books of literary scholarship: ''Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present'' (Cornell UP 2008) and ''The Poetics of Enclosure: American Women Poets from Dickinson to Dove'' (U of Tennessee P 2002) She also co-edited the collection ''Letters to the World: Poems from Members of the Women's Poetry Listserv'' (Red Hen 2008). Her works have been reviewed in ''Poets’ Quarterly'', ''Salamander'', ''Takahē'', ''Strange Horizons'', ''Poet Lore'', ''Rattle'', ''Kestrel'', ''New Pages'', ''Verse Wisconsin'', ''Yanaguana Literary Review'', ''Blackbird'', ''Mid-American Review'', ''Calyx'', ''Junctures'', ''Prairie Schooner'', and other venues.

Honors

*Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship (2013) *Tiptree Award Honor List (2013) *Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (2012) *Fulbright Senior Scholar, New Zealand (2011) *Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize (2010) *Library of Virginia Award finalist (2010) *Virginia Commission for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry (2007) *National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2005)

Selected bibliography

Poetry

*''Radioland'' (Barrow Street 2015) *''The Receptionist and Other Tales'' (Aqueduct 2012) *''Heterotopia'' (Barrow Street 2010) *''Heathen'' (C&R 2009)

Academic works

*''Voicing American Poetry: Sound and Performance from the 1920s to the Present''. (Cornell University Press, 2008) *''The poetics of enclosure: American women poets from Dickinson to Dove''. (University of Tennessee Press, 2002)

References

External links

Official web siteWLU faculty profilePoetry Foundation bioAwpwriter.org
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