Leah Nieboer grew up in rural Iowa. She is a poet, deep listener, interdisciplinary scholar, and current PhD candidate in English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver whose work explores embodied strategies for livable futures. Her first collection of poetry, SOFT APOCALYPSE, was selected by Andrew Zawacki for the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize (UGA Press, 2023). She is a graduate of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, the winner of the 2022 Mountain West Writers’ Contest in Poetry, and the recipient of a Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. She lives in Denver and is at work on a second collection of poetry and a speculative novel.