Leslie Ullman

her latest book, Slow Work Through Sand, winner of the 1997 Iowa Poetry Prize, came out in 1998.  Her first collection of poems, Natural Histories (Yale, 1978), won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award.  Her second collection, Dreams by No One’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987), was part of the Pitt Poetry Series.  Her poems, reviews, and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, The New Yorker, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Chronicle, and Kenyon Review.  She is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships and has taught at Vermont College since 1981.