Shara Lessley is the author of The Explosive Expert’s Wife (Wisconsin UP, 2018), winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Prize, Two-Headed Nightingale (New Issues, 2012), and coeditor of The Poem’s Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades, 2018). A former Stegner Fellow, her awards include an NEA Fellowship, “Discovery”/The Nation prize...