Lea Marshall’s debut poetry collection, Write For Me (dancing girl press, 2016), was a finalist for the Crab Orchard First Book Award in Poetry. Her work has appeared in THRUSH, Linebreak, Diode Poetry Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, B O D Y, and Broad Street. A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University’s MFA program, she serves as the Associate Chair of the Department of Dance and Choreography at Virginia Commonwealth University.