Lesley Jenike is Associate Professor of English and Head of the English and Philosophy Department at the Columbus College of Art and Design. Her first book is Ghost of Fashion (CW Books, 2009), and her second, Holy Island, is forthcoming from Gold Wake Press in 2014. Her poems have appeared recently or will appear soon in The Southern Review, Tampa Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, POOL, Smartish Pace, Gulf Stream, and Baltimore Review. She’s received fellowships and scholarships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Ohio Arts Council.