Without Leave

Deborah Fleming is author of two previous collections of poems, Morning, Winter Solstice (2012) and Into a New Country (2016), as well as a chapbook, Migrations (2005), and a novel, Without Leave (2014), winner of the Asheville Award from Black Mountain Press. She has also published "A man who does not exist": The Irish Peasant in the Work of W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge (1995), Towers of Myth and Stone: Yeats's Influence on Robinson Jeffers (2015), W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism (2000), and Learning the Trade: W. B. Yeats and Contemporary Poetry (1992) as well as articles on Yeats, Jeffers, Eamon Grennan, and Aldo Leopold. Four of her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Winner of a Vandewater Poetry Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Council of Learned Societies, she is director and editor of the Ashland Poetry Press. Currently she lives on a farm in northeast Ohio.