Chantay "Legacy" Leonard, 30, is a Detroit based writer, performance poet and activist. Her literary work has been featured in Stanford University's "Black Arts Quarterly", Poetry Slam Inc.'s. "Women of the World Poetry Slam: Estrology", "The Bandana Republic" and other anthologies, online journals and stage productions. She has been featured in the international, critically acclaimed documentary "Shrinking Cities" exhibited at MOCAD and The Cranbrook Art Museum in the US, and other museums in Germany, Italy, Britain, Japan and other sites. She has also served as one of the editors of jessica Care moore's "God Is Not An American." As a spoken word artist, she has rocked stages with poetic icons The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka, and Jessica Care Moore. She has performed at numerous colleges, universities, festivals and showcases spanning from New York’s Bowery Poetry Club to California’s University of Santa Barbara. She is locally loved and nationally respected. She is one of the founding members of Black Ink Collective and is the Vice President of Strange Fruits, Inc. a national all woman non-profit arts collective that mentors teenage girls through the creative arts. She is currently working on the release of her first solo effort titled "I Have Come Forth By Day: An Anthology of a Woman's Evolution" due out December 2011.

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)