Leigh Lucas

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 Sewanee, and has been recognized with the 2022 San Francisco Poetry Prize, the 2021 Driftwood Press Poetry Prize, and the 2020 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, Poet Lore, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson.