Jay Leeming is the author of Dynamite on a China Plate, a book of poems published by The Backwaters Press. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines including Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry East and Black Warrior Review. He has been a featured reader at Butler University, the Omega Institute, Robert Bly’s Great Mother Conference and the Woodstock Poetry Festival. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and is currently serving as Poet Laureate of Tompkins County. He lives and teaches in Ithaca, New York.