Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her full-length collection Rare Space and the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards. Her second book, Liquid Like This, was published by Word Press in 2008. Leslie works as a retail copywriter in Pittsburgh, where she lives with her daughter Silas and partner, Don. Her poems and performances can be found at lamcilroy.com