Lee Chilcote is the author of the poetry chapbooks The Shape of Home
and How to Live in Ruins
. His writing has been published by Vanity Fair
, Next City
, Belt
and many literary journals as well as in The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook
, The Cleveland Anthology
and A Race Anthology: Dispatches and Artifacts from a Segregated City
. He is a founder and former executive director of Literary Cleveland. He lives in the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood of Cleveland with his family.