Leigh Lucas

Leigh Lucas is a writer and teacher in San Francisco. Her poetry collection, Splashed Things (Boa Editions, 2026), won the A. Poulin Jr. Prize and CALIBA’s Golden Poppy Award in Poetry. Her chapbook, Landsickness (Tupelo Press, 2024), won the Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. Her writing has appeared in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Literary Hub, Poetry Society of America, and more.