Lee Sharkey’s poetry books include the just-published Walking Backwards (Tupelo Press, 2016), Calendars of Fire (Tupelo, 2013), and nine earlier full-length collections and chapbooks. She is the recipient of the Abraham Sutzkever Centennial Translation Prize, the Maine Arts Commission’s Fellowship in Literary Arts, the RHINO Editors’ Prize, the Shadowgraph Poetry Prize, and Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award in Poetry, and serves as Senior Editor of the Beloit Poetry Journal.