Lesley Jenike‘s essays have appeared or will appear soon in The Kenyon Review, phoebe, The Cincinnati Review, The Bennington Review, Diode, Waxwing, and The Account. Her poems have appeared in Tupelo Quarterly, Poetry, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Rattle, and many other journals.
Her most recent collection is a chapbook of poems, Punctum:, published by the Kent State University Press in 2017.
She teaches at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Columbus, Ohio, where she lives with her husband and two small children.