About the Author

M. Lee Alexander's poetry is inspired by her love of language, nature, music, and travel. It has appeared in a variety of journals and been anthologized in a number of collections. She is the author of three books of poetry: Observatory (Finishing Line Press 2007, nominated for the Virginia Library Association Poetry Book Award), Folly Bridge (Finishing Line Press 2011), and Spinning the Compass (Aquillrelle Press, Belgium, 2018).

Alexander's work has won significant awards, including Finalist for the Robert Frost Foundation Annual Poetry Award; Finalist in the Political satire category of Ireland's Strokestown International Poetry Competition; First Honorable Mention in the W. B. Years Society of New York Poetry Competition; long-listed for the Bridport Prize; winner of the Yeovil Literary Prize 2009 for which the judge was UK Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy; 3rd Place, Torriano International Poetry Competition, London; and Commended, Formal Category, Poetry on the Lake International Poetry Contest, Lake Orta, Italy. It has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

M. Lee Alexander has performed her work, sometimes with jazz accompaniment, in multiple venues across the mid-Atlantic region, the Midwest, and internationally. She has judged local, statewide, and international writing contests. Alexander teaches creative writing including poetry and creative nonfiction at William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA, where she lives with a house full of pets who think they run the joint and pretty much do.