Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her first full-length collection Rare Space, the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards and the 2018 Gemini Flash Fiction contest. The publication of her nonfiction first, The Red Door: A Historical Memoire of The Squirrel Hill Cafe is forthcoming in fall, 2020.