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Leigh is a Michigan-based writer, editor, educator, legal researcher, and movement artist.
A chronically ill and disabled artist, Leigh aims to learn from and contribute to a rich and growing lineage of disabled artists.
Leigh’s debut poetry collection, FREELAND, is available from Alice James Books as of June 2025!
In addition to FREELAND, Leigh created and edited That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral settings (New Village Press, 2023)
Leigh is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
Thank you for visiting, and please connect!
FREELAND Praise & Press:
FREELAND named a “Most Anticipated Debut Poetry Collection of 2025” by Electric Literature!
Review by Rishi Janakiraman at Sontag Mag
Excerpt featured on Philly Chapbook Review
Review from William Ward Butler at Bear River Review
Interview by Jiordan Castle in Electric Literature
More coverage here!
Forthcoming Poems
Two Poems in Disability Portfolio edition of Suspect via Singapore Unbound
Two Poems in Nerve to Write Disability Literature
OTHER NEWS
Essay: “Otherwise Hidden, or, Self-Erasure: A Teleology” at Poetry Foundation (online)
ONLYPOEMS POET OF THE WEEK!
See feature & interview here <3