Chantay “Legacy” Leonard, 28, is a Detroit based writer, performance poet and activist. Her literary work has been featured in Stanford University’s "Black Arts Quarterly", the anthologies "Estrology" and "The Bandana Republic" and other anthologies, online journals and stage productions. As a spoken word artist she has shared stages with poetic icons The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka, and Jessica care Moore. She tours with Hip-Poe-Tics Lecture & Performance Activism series and works and performs with the non-profit arts collective, Strange Fruits. She is currently working on her long awaited book of poetry "Babylon Batafurai".

Estrology (Wordsmith Press, 2008), The Bandana Republic: A Literary Anthology by Gang Members and Their Affiliates (Soft Skull Press, 2008)

Bowery Poetry Club (2007), Cornell University (2007), Eastern Michigan University (2007), Hip-Poe-Tics Lecture and Poetry Series - University of California, Santa Barbara (2007), The Essence of Motown Literary Jam - The Charles H. Wright African American History Museum (2007), The Evening Coffee House, Marygrove College (2007), Northwest Missouri State University (2006), Over the Counter/Under the Skin, University of Michigan - Dearborn (2006), Max Fisher Theater - Detroit, MI (2005), Redd Apple Gallery - Detroit, MI (2004), Comerica Java & Jazz Series, Wayne State University (2002), Marygrove College (2002)