Leigh Anne Couch is a graduate of the UNC-Greensboro MFA program and a regular staff member of the Sewanee Writers' Conference. She taught literature and writing for six years and is currently an assistant managing editor at Duke University Press. Her poems have been published in The Greensboro Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Many Mountains Moving, Whiskey Island Magazine, Slope, and Painted Bride Quarterly.  

Photo by A. Naoko Heck