[about me]

short bio:

Leah Umansky is the author of three collections, most recently, OF TYRANT, Word Works Books 2024. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted The COUPLET Reading Series in NYC since 2011. Her creative work has been featured in, PBS The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY, and American Poetry Review.

She is at work on her fourth book of poems, a collection on joy, love and wonder currently entitled Ordinary Splendor, a hybrid-memoir, Delicate Machine, an exploration of womanhood, fertility, hope, and heart in the face of grief and a global pandemic, and a YA memoir, Oceans Apart. She can be found at www.leahumansky.com or @leah.umansky on IG.

Extended Bio:

Leah Umansky is a poet, writer, artist, and writing coach. She has been an educator for over 15 years and has taught workshops to writers of all ages in such places as The Poetry School (UK), and Hudson Valley Writers Center, Poets House, as well as, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s Visible Ink Program. She is also the author of three collections of poetry, OF TYRANT (The Word Works), The Barbarous Century, (2018) Domestic Uncertainties, (Blazevox,2012) and two chapbooks, Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press, 2016), and the Mad-Men inspired Don Dreams and I Dream , (Kattywompus Press, 2014).

She is also the creator of STAY BRAVE (a virtual FREE salon for women-identifying writers on bravery in the creative life.)

Her creative work has been featured in such places as PBS, The New York Times, The Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A Day, USA Today, POETRY, Guernica, and American Poetry Review and others.

She has been the host and curator of the NYC based poetry series COUPLET, since 2011 and is a graduate of the MFA Program in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a superfan of Game of Thrones and Mad Men, Westworld, and Mr. Robot. Many of her Game of Thrones inspired poems have been translated into Norwegian and Bengali. She is also a collage-artist who has designed all of her book covers. She can be found at www.leahumansky.com or @leah.umansky on IG.

**Flavorwire named her #7 of 23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013.

She was voted one of The Top 10 Chapbooks To Read Now in 2014 by Time Out New York.

Leah is available for talks, lectures, class visits, readings, manuscript consultations. writing coaching and workshops for all ages.

Contact her at the CONTACT tab above.

Leah Is represented by Annie Dewitt at The Shipman Agency annie@theshipmanagency.com