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Leslie McGrath’s poems have appeared widely and are forthcoming in Tiferet and Long Poem magazine (UK). Winner of the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for poetry, McGrath edited Reetika Vazirani’s posthumous poetry collection,Radha Says. McGrath’s first collection, Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage (2009) was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award in poetry. She is the former managing editor of Drunken Boat. She wrote "Parallax" to be read in two voices. Cheryl Moskowitz, with whom Leslie shares a birthday,works as a writing facilitator in London. Her fiction and poetry have been widely published in the UK. Her works include a novel, Wyoming Trail (Granta, 1998) and Can It Be About Me, a poetry collection for children (2009.)