Welcome to Anna Leahy's website. You can find a lot of basic information here. Also, check out Lofty Ambitions, the blog she co-authors with Doug Dechow at http://loftyambitions.wordpress.com, and check Chapman University for information about Tabula Poetica at http://www.chapman.edu/poetry.

NEWS

Lofty Ambitions, a blog with Douglas Dechow, launches on July 1, 2010. Topics include aviation, science in the twentieth century, and writing as a couple.

The poem "On Nervous Breakdowns: Saint Dymphna" appears in the latest issue of Barn Owl Review. Anna also has poems in recent issues of Laurel Review and Margie and forthcoming in Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, Eclipse, and Oberon. Her story "Look for Me" was published by Fifth Wednesday last year.

Anna earned an Excellence Award in Service by Chapman University for the project Tabula Poetica, which includes an annual poetry series in the fall. This year's visiting poets are Rae Armantrout, Patty Seyburn, Lynne Thhompson, and Allison Joseph. The university also awarded her a Scholarly/Creative Grant for 2010-2011 for travel to the Atomic Testing Museum and Los Alamos.

Anna's essay "Teaching as a Creative Act" appears in the new collection Does the Writing Workshop Still Work, now available from Multilingual Matters and on Amazon.