Lee Zacharias has recent work in Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, The Gettysburg Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and other journals, and her nonfiction is frequently cited in the annual Best American Essays series.  The author of Helping Muriel Make It Through the Night  (stories) and the novel Lesson,  she teaches in the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she has won the College, the University of North Carolina Board of Governors, and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association awards for excellence in teaching, and for ten years served as editor of The Greensboro Review.