Leah Nielsen is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. program at the University of Alabama. She has poems forthcoming in Born Magazine, Meridian, and Sou'wester.

About Quarterly West:
Poets in this issue: Roger Pfingston, Jeffery Bahr, Diane Mehta, Katie Ford, Robert Nazarene, Myrna Stone, Leah Nielsen, Jean-Paul Pecqueur, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Taj Jackson, Randall Mann, Gary Leising, Susan Marshall, Mary Morris, Gary Young, Russel Swensen, Karen Anderson, Craig Arnold, Jason Ott, Anthony Tognazzini, Matthew Edmund Miller, Ewa Lipska, Allan Peterson, Alison Pelegrin, Emily Rosko, Lee Upton, Connie Voisine, James Hoch, Paul Guest