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Leigh’s debut collection, FREELAND, is available for PREORDER, and is forthcoming from Alice James Books in late spring 2025!
FREELAND recently named a “Most Anticipated Debut Poetry Collection of 2025” by Electric Literature!
Leigh is a Michigan-based writer, editor, educator, and movement artist.
She created and edited That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral settings (New Village Press, 2023) available NOW!
Leigh works for poet Rachel Zucker on her podcast Commonplace: Conversations with Poets (and other people)!
A chronically ill and disabled artist, Leigh is dedicated to learning from and contributing to a rich and growing lineage of disabled artists.
Find more information about past and upcoming projects and events, as well as available teaching, writing, editing, and tutoring services, in the navigation bar above.
Thank you for visiting, and please connect!
Leigh is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
EVENTS & NEWS
Free online reading: Teaching Artists of Poetry Foundation’s Forms & Features Program (TBA)
Essay: “Otherwise Hidden, or, Self-Erasure: A Teleology” forthcoming at Poetry Foundation (online)
Poem forthcoming in FENCE (the “Steaming” portal)!
Videopoem (it’s not so bad) screened at RestFest Film Fest 2024!
ONLYPOEMS POET OF THE WEEK!
See feature & interview here <3