Lesley Wheeler

Lesley Wheeler, Poetry Editor of Shenandoah, is the author of six poetry collections, most recently Mycocosmic. Her other books include the hybrid memoir Poetry’s Possible Worlds and the novel Unbecoming. Wheeler’s work has been supported by Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other grantors. Her poems and essays appear in Poets & Writers, Poetry, Ecotone, and Massachusetts Review.

Mycelial Mind

…the uncontrolled lives of mushrooms are a gift—and a guide—when the controlled world we thought…