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Leigh is a Michigan-based writer, editor, educator, and movement artist.
Leigh’s debut collection, FREELAND, is available for PREORDER, and is forthcoming from Alice James Books in June 2025!
FREELAND was named a “Most Anticipated Debut Poetry Collection of 2025” by Electric Literature!
Readings & Events - June
JUNE 14: RESTFEST CROSSOVER EVENT: REMOTE reading with b ferguson, Jane Huffman, and Tiezst “Tie” Taylor. Sliding Scale. Live ASL provided. PRE-REGISTER HERE
JUNE 25: Reading at Literati Books (Ann Arbor, MI) 6:30 pm - with Tamar Ashdot
JUNE 28: Reading & Community Celebration at Veridian at County Farm, 4:30 pm - with Matthew Brailas, You Li, and Marshall Thomas. Sliding Scale. Live ASL provided. PRE-REGISTER HERE
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Leigh also created and edited That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral settings (New Village Press, 2023)
A chronically ill and disabled artist, Leigh is dedicated to learning from and contributing to a rich and growing lineage of disabled artists.
Leigh is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
Thank you for visiting, and please connect!
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OTHER NEWS
Essay: “Otherwise Hidden, or, Self-Erasure: A Teleology” at Poetry Foundation (online)
Poem in FENCE
Two poems forthcoming in Pleiades (Print)
ONLYPOEMS POET OF THE WEEK!
See feature & interview here <3