Stephanie Lenox received an MFA in poetry from the University of Idaho and a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Whitworth University. Nominated five times in the past four years for a Pushcart Prize, her work can be found in numerous literary journals. Her chapbook The Heart That Lies Outside the Body won the 2007 Slapering Hol Chapbook Contest. Her work has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2006 and published as a limited-edition broadside by the Center for Book Arts. She is a recipient of a 2008 Oregon Arts Commission grant. She works as Promotions Director at a children's museum in Salem, Oregon, and edits the online literary journal Blood Orange Review.