Answer
By Lea Marshall
“Highlighter yellow, dignity / of curled claw, still open eye. Hard lesson of weightlessness // on my palm.”
Lea Marshall
Lea Marshall’s writing has appeared in Imagining: A Gibney Journal, The Atlantic, Dance Magazine, and elsewhere and her poetry has been published in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Penn Review, JAMA, Diode, and Rogue Agent, among other journals and anthologies. She worked as a producer and arts administrator for over 20 years, earning her MFA along the way from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her debut collection, The Slow Hammer of Roots, was published in 2025 by Broadstone Books. Lea currently works as a grant writer and lives with her family in Charlottesville, Virginia.