Kristen Leigh is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work focuses on the relationships between people and places, with a particular interest in global women’s issues, public history, and the environment.
She writes every day at Louis Place and is represented by Susan Canavan at WLA Books.
MFA, Fiction; Graduate Certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut
BA, Creative Writing
Salem College
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
International Exchange
Magdelen College, Oxford University, United Kingdom
Karlshochschule International University, Karlsruhe, Germany
National Exchange
University of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii
Select Publications
Fiction & Nonfiction
Hometown Girls, Flash Nonfiction, slips slips Spring 2025, print
No Straight Lines, Only Edges, Flash Nonfiction, slips slips Spring 2025, print
Untitled, Poem, slips slips Spring 2025, print
The Song of the Body, Last Syllable: A Journal of Long Form Literature, Winter 2023
The Most Beautiful Day of the Year, Sequoia Speaks, Fall 2022 print issue, nonfiction
Texture and Tone, EcoTheo Review, Spring 2022 print issue, nonfiction
Gazing at Algol: Beta Persei from Fem 500, zine, November 2021
Googling Bettie Page, 133-A, Figure 1 Journal Issue 5b Summer 2021, poetry
Mad Girl’s Love Song: Truths and Fictions, Graduate Thesis 2016
Mothers & Daughters, Noctua Review 2015, fiction
Don’t Fuck With the Girls From Revere, First Times Anthology 2014, flash fiction
20/20 Vision, Every Writer’s Resource, flash fiction
Book Reviews
Review of The Salt God’s Daughter by Ilie Ruby, The Los Angeles Review
Review of Balance of Fragile Things by Olivia Chadha, The Los Angeles Review
Kirkus Reviews Indie, Freelance Reviewer
Tiferet Journal
Events
July 2025
Interview, On the Mends
May 17, 2025
slips slips Launch Party Reading, Dixon Place, NYC
September 2024
Interview, The Long Pause
May 9, 2021
Mother’s Day Poetry Reading
Nature-Culture, Zoom
October 2020
Podcast with Max Negotiating
Negotiation and Breath
May 13, 2016
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut
April 27, 2015
Southern Connecticut State University
New Haven, Connecticut
Other Projects
slips slips, co-founder, co-editor of biannual print literary and arts journal
Daily Art app, English Language Editor, 2019
Text in Context: A Graduate Student Journal
Volume 2, Issue 1 Special Section: Pop Culture in Context, Peer Review, 2014
Campus Clipper, Editor, 2012
Incunabula, Salem College Literary Journal, Editor and Peer Review, 2010, 2011
Salem College International Literary Award, Preliminary Reader 2010, 2011
