Margaret LeMay has taught creative writing at The University of Iowa, The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Coe College, Des Moines University, the East Harlem Tutorial Project, and elsewhere. She is the founding director of the Examined Life Conference and the Writing and Humanities Program at the Carver College of Medicine. Her poems have appeared in publications that include Another Chicago Magazine, the Asian Pacific American Journal, Better, The Cortland Review, Little Village, and Transom, and her work was among semi-finalists for the Discovery/Boston Review prize and finalists for the Four Way Books Levis Prize. Her poem “The Heart Wakes Into” served as title and six movement subtitles for a piano quintet commissioned by and performed at the Library of Congress. She has joined the Festival as a graduate assistant, weekend session coordinator, van-driver coordinator, Eleventh Hour lecture series curator, associate director, and friend over almost two decades. Margaret holds a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.F.A. in poetry writing from The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop.