Lea Banks is the author of the chapbook All of Me, (Booksmyth Press, 2008). She was a finalist for The Pavel Srut Fellowship in Prague and two poems were 2009 Pushcart Prize nominees. Banks is the founder of the nationally known Collected Poets Series in Shelburne Falls, MA and editor of Oscillation: Poetry in Motion. She was the former poetry editor of The Equinox and editorial assistant for the Marlboro Review. She attended New England College’s MFA program, facilitated stroke survivors’ writing workshops, and is a poet, freelance editor and writer, and owner of an online vintage store. Banks has published in several journals including Poetry Northwest, Slipstream, Diner, Sweet, andAmerican Poetry Journal. See more here.

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