Author: Robert G. Lesman
Fuller name: Robert George Lesman
Alternate names: Robert Lesman; Bob Lesman
Born: 1942
Bio: Robert G. Lesman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1942 and grew up in a middle-class Catholic family.  He is the only son of Genevieve Marie Sauer and Robert William Lesman, who divorced in 1946.  He attended Ball State University, graduating in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in English Education.  After teaching for two years at a public secondary school in Smithtown, New York, he studied at Niagara University, earning a master's degree in English in 1968.  He taught English at York College in Pennsylvania for a year and then taught as an instructor at the University of Delaware from 1969 until 1971.  From that year until 2009 he was on the faculty at Northern Virginia Community College, where he attained the rank of associate professor.  In 2009 he was named Professor Emeritus by Northern Virginia Community College.  In retirement, Lesman works as a free-lance writer and editor, and he is managing editor of The Sow's Ear Poetry Review.  He has published two collections of poems,  Thinking of Animals (1993) and Sky Reports (2001), and his work has appeared in many literary magazines.  He married Ann St. Clair Burwell in 1969. They have three sons:  Charles Donaldson Lesman (born 1971), a special education teacher and soccer coach; William Alexander Lesman (born 1973), a lawyer; and Robert St. Clair Lesman (born in 1976), a professor of Spanish and comparative literature.  Robert and Ann Lesman have lived on a small farm in Millwood, Clarke County, Virginia, since 1992.