Leigh Stein is the author of the poetry collection, Dispatch from the Future (Melville House, 2012), which was a Publishers Weekly pick for their Best Summer Books of 2012 list, as well as a Rumpus Poetry Book Club selection. Her first novel, The Fallback Plan (Melville House, 2012), received praise from Elle, O Magazine, and Publishers Weekly, and made the "highbrow brilliant" quadrant in New York magazine's approval matrix.