Lex Orgera

Lex Orgera is the author of, most recently, a collection of poems, Agatha (JackLeg Press, 2025), and a memoir, Head Case (Kore Press, 2021). A book about herbs, A Melancholy Herbal, is forthcoming in 2027. Orgera’s poems have appeared in numerous magazines including Bennington Review, Denver Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Massachusetts Review, West Branch, and Verse Daily. Orgera has been the recipient of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and a fellowship at the Hermitage Artists Retreat, is a contributing editor at JackLeg Press, and serves on the board of Fonograf Editions. She lives, writes, and edits books in North Carolina.