Lori Lebow, born in Detroit, Michigan, completed a B.A. at the University of Michigan (1970), before arriving in Australia to complete, first, an MA Hons (1995) and then a Ph.D. (1999) at the University of Wollongong.
Her first volume of short stories was published in 2003.
She has also published scholarly work on the writing of Emily Dickinson, in international journals.
