LeAnn Snow Flesher, Ph.D., is an ordained minister with the American Baptist Churches, USA and a Professor of Old Testament Studies at the American Baptist Seminary of the West (a member school of the Graduate Theological Union) in Berkeley, California. She has published several articles on the Lament Psalms, Lamentations and the biblical book of Job in the Living Pulpit: Dedicated to the Art of the Sermon, Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology and The IVP Women's Bible Commentary. Dr. Flesher completed her BA at the University of Minnesota, her M.Div. at Bethel Theological Seminary, and her Ph.D. at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.