Lesley Clinton has won awards from the National Federation of Press Women (NFPW), Press Women of Texas, and the Poetry Society of Texas. Her chapbook of poems, Calling the Garden from the Grave (Finishing Line Press), won 2nd place among books of verse in the NFPW 2020 Communications Contest. In 2019 Lesley received the Lucille Johnson Clarke Memorial award from the Houston Poetry Fest. Lesley’s book reviews have been published or forthcoming in America Magazine and Christianity and Literature, and her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in publications such as THINK, Mezzo Cammin, The Windhover, Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Grotto, and Ekstasis Magazine. Lesley has a Master of Arts in Teaching. She teaches high school English and is Editor in Chief of The Chronicle of Strake Jesuit College Preparatory.