Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of two collections of poetry, World As Dictionary (Carnegie-Mellon University Press), and Dog Angel, forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She has also written a memoir, Space (Algonquin/Penguin), about growing up in Florida during the moon race. Her poetry has recently appeared in Ploughshares, The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, The Yale Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she directs the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.