Thomas Lesh was born in Chicago, IL. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in History from the University of Chicago and spent several years abroad studying Politics at the London School of Economics. He has always been interested in poetry and the theater and has resumed his literary pursuits recently, having achieved a sufficient degree of idleness to indulge these ambitions. In addition to occasional poetry, he has written several dramatic works, none of which have been produced to date, but one of which, The Awful Tragedy of Big Ed, had several excerpts read recently at a local Chicago theater group.