Lesley Dame (Gainesville, Florida) is a co-founder and poetry editor for damselfly press. She has also served as poetry editor for The Fourth River, literary journal at Chatham University, where she received her MFA. Dame is the author of the poetry chapbook "Letting Out the Ghosts," and her poems have appeared in Stirring and Poesia.

Dame's poems, "What My Desire is For" and "Letting Out the Ghosts," appeared in Vol. 1 Issue 1 of Apparatus Magazine.