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Leslie Williams is the author of Even the Dark, winner of the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition, and Success of the Seed Plants, winner of the Bellday Prize. She has received Individual Artist Fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and the Robert Winner Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her poems appear widely in magazines including Poetry, Kenyon Review, Image, America, The Southern Review and many others. Here’s more about her work. She is always wondering about the Divine.