Susan L. Leary

Susan L. Leary is the author of six poetry collections: SENTENCE (Nine Syllables Press, fall 2026), selected by Eugenia Leigh to win the Nine Syllables Press Chapbook Contest; More Flowers (Trio House Press, 2026); Dressing the Bear (Trio House Press, 2024), selected by Kimberly Blaeser to win the Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence; A Buffet Table Fit for Queens (Small Harbor Publishing, 2023), winner of the Washburn Prize; Contraband Paradise (Main Street Rag, 2021); and This Girl, Your Disciple (Finishing Line Press, 2019), finalist for The Heartland Review Press Chapbook Prize and semi-finalist for the Elyse Wolf Prize. Her poetry and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in such places as Indiana Review, Diode Poetry Journal, Cream City Review, Smartish Pace, The Arkansas International, Third Coast, Sequestrum, Crab Creek Review, South Dakota Review, The McNeese Review, Grist, Tahoma Literary Review, On The Seawall, Jet Fuel Review, Cherry Tree, Tar River Poetry, Bear Review, Harpur Palate, Cider Press Review, Superstition Review, Lunch Ticket, DMQ Review, Louisiana Literature, Slipstream, jmww, The MacGuffin, Heavy Feather Review, Up the Staircase Quarterly, The Ilanot Review, Tusculum Review, Pithead Chapel, and Verse Daily. She holds a B.A., M.A., and M.F.A. from the University of Miami and lives in Indianapolis, IN.