Leslie Ullman

Leslie Ullman is a legendary voice in contemporary American poetry, celebrated for her ability to bridge the gap between literary form and the avant-garde creative process. As a Professor Emerita at the University of Texas-El Paso where she dedicated 27 years to the craft and a long-standing faculty member of the Vermont College of the Fine Arts, her work is rooted in both academic prestige and experimental inquiry. A winner of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the Iowa Poetry Prize, and two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Fellowships, Ullman’s career is a testament to the evolution of poetic structure.

In her latest work, Unruly Tree (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series), she pushes the boundaries of the genre by utilizing the "Oblique Strategies" of Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt as a structural axis. Her writing moves beyond traditional verse, offering a cross-disciplinary bridge for musicians, visual artists, and designers seeking to navigate the "beautiful uncertainties" of the artistic journey.

She lives and writes in Taos, New Mexico, where she continues to explore the intersection of landscape, meditation, and the creative mind.