BIO
Leigh Lucas is a writer in San Francisco. Her chapbook LANDSICKNESS (Tupelo Press, 2024) was selected by Chen Chen for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. She has been awarded residencies at Tin House, Community of Writers, and Kenyon, and has been recognized with AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize, as well as with a Best New Poet nomination, Best of Net nomination, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Leigh’s poems can be found in Poem-a-Day, Frontier Poetry, North American Review, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson.