Leigh Lucas is the author of Splashed Things, winner of the A. Poulin Jr Poetry Prize (Boa Editions, 2026), and Landsickness (Tupelo Press, 2024), selected by Chen Chen for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. The recipient of residencies from Tin House, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, her writing can be found in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Adroit, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson. She lives in San Francisco, CA.