Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including TIME, The Nation, Poetry, Ploughshares,Waxwing, and the Best of the Net anthology. Eugenia serves as a Poetry Editor at The Adroit Journal and as Valentines Editor at Honey Literary.

Books by Eugenia Leigh:

Bianca (Four Way Books, 2023)

Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books 2014)

Also Mentioned:

Hey It’s Me podcast (with Mike Sakasagawa and Rachel Zucker)

Eugenia Leigh’s on the Zuihitsu

Black Lives Matter

Alan Shapiro

Hybrida by Tina Chang

The Undertaker’s Daughter by Toi Derricotte  

The Zuihitsu Form

Franny Choi 

Confessional Poetry 

Bri Gonzalez

Jessica Nirvana Ram

Odes to Lithium by Shira Erlichman

Lorca’s Duende 

2024 AWP Panel on Mental Illness: Danez Smith, Leila Chatti, Stevie Edwards, Marlin M. Jenkins 

John Murillo’s “Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,”

Carrie Fountain’s “The Jungle”

Rachel Zucker’s SoundMachine

Keith S Wilson

Vanessa Angélica Villarreal

Eduardo Corral’s Slow Lightning

Mai Der Vang & her book, Yellow Rain

Visual Poem by Keith S. Wilson

Time Travel by James Gleick

Carlo Rovelli’s The Order of Time

Brian Greene

Hafizah Geter’s The Black Period

Nicole Sealey’s The Ferguson Report

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