Lee M. Jenkins is Senior Lecturer of English at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author of Wallace Stevens: Rage for Order (1999), The Language of Caribbean Poetry: Boundaries of Expression (2004), and The American Lawrence (2015). Jenkins has published many articles on American literature, modernism, and Caribbean poetry, and has contributed chapters to The Black and Green Atlantic, The Cambridge Companion to British and Irish Women's Poetry, and The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry.