This week we welcome Leah Umansky as our guest blogger. Leah is a New Yorker by birth, a teacher by choice, and an anglophile at heart. Her first book, “Domestic Uncertainties,” is floating around various contest piles and hoping for someone to say, “yes!” She received her BA in English/Creative Writing from SUNY Binghamton and her MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and is a recipient of a 1-week fellowship at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony. She is a contributing writer for BOMB Magazine’s BOMBLOG and a Poetry Reviewer for The Rumpus. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Barrow Street, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Contemporary Verse 2, Cream City Review, The Paterson Literary Review, and Magma Poetry. Read more at her blog i am my own heroine. Leah is the Founder and Host of COUPLET: a poetry and music series on the Lower East Side of NYC. Follow her on twitter (@lady_bronte )
Welcome, Leah.
