Anna Leahy, Wick Prize Winner
BIG NEWS: Anna Leahy is pleased to be a member of the English Department at Chapman University. She is teaching graduate poetry workshops and poetry techniques courses in the MFA program and introductory creative writing and poetry workshop courses in the BFA programs. The sun shines in Orange, California, as much one day as the last.
Anna Leahy is the author of Constituents of Matter, which won the Wick Poetry Prize in 2006. The poems explore the ways in which theories, models, and terminology reveal and obscure, expand and limit, connect and separate our understandings of the physical world around us and the stories we tell about our lives.
Leahy has two chapbooks: Turns about a Point and Hagioscope. Her poetry appears in journals such as the Connecticut Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Journal, and Phoebe. Her poem "A History of Air Travel" was included in the anthology On the Wing: American Poems of Air and Space Flight.
Leahy is the editor of the scholarly collection Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project and publishes widely in the area of creative writing pedagogy. She has been invited to participate in a Presidential Initiative "Creative Writing in the 21st Century" at the 2008 MLA Convention.
Leahy collaborates with art historian Debora Rindge to explore the poetry of Pulitzer Prize-winner Natasha Trethewey; their work appeared in English Language Notes and Composition Studies and is forthcoming in an anthology about ekphrastic literature. Leahy also writes with librarian Douglas R. Dechow about aviation museums; their work has appeared in Curator and the collection Bombs Away.
