You Between the Lines

A former sorority girl starts a prestigious poetry MFA program only to discover that one of her fellow grad students is her high school crush-turned-nemesis.

No one’s more surprised than Leigh when she’s accepted at a prestigious MFA program for her poetry. A former sorority girl, Leigh knows more about the lyrics of Taylor Swift than T.S. Eliot, and she’s never been able to shake the “all-style-no-substance” comment her high school crush made in their poetry workshop. It’s bad enough that her New Yorker tote bag-carrying classmates have all been published in leading literary journals. Yet her insecurities become all too real when Will, that same high school crush-turned-nemesis, shows up at orientation.

Leigh’s determined to prove herself—and Will—wrong by landing the program’s highly-coveted fellowship. Of course as a typical Moleskine-carrying poet, Will’s dead-set on it too, but in a small cohort, they can’t keep apart for long. So when Will submits poems to workshop that are (maybe, probably, definitely) about Leigh, they each realize there’s more to the other than what’s on the page. And what’s between the lines may be even more interesting.