Leigh Lucas

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Leigh Lucas has holds a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from Warren Wilson College.

Lucas is the author of the poetry collection Splashed Things (BOA Editions, 2026), winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, and the chapbook 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, Lucas lives in San Francisco.