Leigh is a Michigan-based writer, editor, educator, and movement artist.

Leigh’s debut collection, FREELAND, is available from Alice James Books as of June 2025!

Early Praise & Press:

FREELAND named a “Most Anticipated Debut Poetry Collection of 2025” by Electric Literature!

Excerpt featured on Philly Chapbook Review

Review from William Ward Butler at Bear River Review

Interview by Jiordan Castle in Electric Literature

Stay tuned…

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

“Semiotics” and “Upon Being Told I’m Untrustworthy” in Pleiades (Print)

ONLYPOEMS POET OF THE WEEK!

See feature & interview here <3

BROOKLYN POETS POET OF THE WEEK!

See feature & interview here <3