Poetry is Normal Presents Anna Leahy

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Join us for a Poetry is Normal Presents event as Anna Leahy comes from California to share her work! 

Anna Leahy is the author of the nonfiction book Tumor, and poetry collections Aperture and Constituents of Matter. She is the co-author of Generation Space, Conversing with Cancer, and What We Talk about When We talke about Creative Writing. her essays and poems have appeared in The Atlantic, Crab Orchard Review, Pop Sugar, The Southern Review, The Pinch and elsewhere and won the top awards from Ninth Letter and Dogwood in 2016. She directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chapman University, where she edits the international journal TAB and curate the Tabula Poetica reading series. Learn more at amleahy.com.

Thank you to the Normal Public Library Foundation for supporting our Poetry is Normal Presents series.