Leslie McGrath’s poems have been widely published in the US, as well as in England, Ireland and Japan. She is the author of the collection Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (2009), and the chapbook Toward Anguish, which won the 2007 Philbrick Poetry Award. McGrath received her MFA in literature and poetry from the Bennington Writing Seminars after receiving an MA in clinical psychology from Wesleyan University. Her poems have appeared frequently online and in print, and have been anthologized both in the US and India. McGrath was awarded a 2004 Nimrod/Hardman Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, a 2007 Artist Fellowship from the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism and has served on the judges’ panels for the Connecticut Book Award in Poetry, the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and the Maine Arts Commission. Her literary interviews have been published frequently in The Writer's Chronicle and have also been aired on public radio.