Leah Browning

Leah Browning is the author of Two Good Ears and Loud Snow, mini-books of flash fiction published by Silent Station Press in 2021 and 2022, and When the Sun Comes Out After Three Days of Rain, a collection of poetry published by Kelsay Books in 2022. She is also the author of three short nonfiction books for teens and pre-teens, all published by Capstone Press, and six chapbooks of poetry and fiction. The most recent chapbook of short fiction, Orchard City, was published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2017. Browning’s work has appeared in Harpur Palate, Four Way Review, Valparaiso Fiction Review, The Threepenny Review, Flock, Necessary Fiction, Waxwing, Contrary Magazine, Terrain.org, Gone Lawn, Bear Review, Ponder Review, Watershed Review, Parhelion Literary Magazine, Newfound, The Forge Literary Magazine, Random Sample Review, Superstition Review, Santa Ana River Review, The Homestead Review, Thin Air Magazine, Belle Ombre, The Petigru Review, South 85 Journal, Belletrist Magazine, The Ilanot Review, The Big Windows Review, The Westchester Review, The Broadkill Review, Oyster River Pages, Poetry South, Mojave River Review, The Stillwater Review, and elsewhere. Her fiction and poetry have also appeared on materials from Broadsided Press and Poetry Jumps Off the Shelf, with audio and video recordings in The Poetry Storehouse, in The Wardrobe, and in anthologies including The Doll Collection from Terrapin Books and Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence from White Pine Press. Her first full-length collection of short stories, The Costume Wedding, is forthcoming from Betty Books, an imprint of WTAW Press. In addition to writing, Browning has served as editor of the Apple Valley Review since 2005.