Michal Lemberger is a poet, essayist, and teacher. Her poetry has appeared in The Journal for Textual Reasoning, Red Poppy Review, and The Rattling Wall. Her prose work can be found in Salon, Slate, and The LA Weekly, among others. She holds a PhD in English from UCLA, and has taught literature and poetry to groups ranging from schoolchildren to graduate students. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children.