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Leigh Lucas

Leigh Lucas is a writer in San Francisco. Her poetry collection Splashed Things won the A. Poulin Jr. Prize from BOA Editions. Her chapbook Landsickness (Tupelo Press, 2024) was selected by Chen Chen for the 2023 Sunken Garden Poetry Chapbook Award. Leigh’s writing can be found in Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Adroit, and elsewhere. She holds a BA from Stanford and an MFA from Warren Wilson.
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    The First Book: Leigh Lucas

    “This isn’t advice but it’s helpful. I’d heard from so many poets I admire that it was hard, sometimes really hard, to get their first collection published. Some poets I know even published their second books before their first books…