Leah

Leah Nieboer grew up in rural Iowa. She is a poet, deep listener, and current PhD candidate in English & Literary Arts at the University of Denver whose work explores embodied strategies for livable futures. Her first book, SOFT APOCALYPSE (UGA Press, 2023), was selected by Andrew Zawacki for the 2021 Georgia Poetry Prize, and her work has appeared in Oversound, the Brooklyn Rail, Poetry Daily, Interim: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics, and other publications. 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 speculative novel.

Upcoming class: Sick Future: Untimely Bodies, or Bodies Out of Time