Hi, I'm Leah.
I'm a writer, editor, and researcher based in the San Francisco Bay Area. My creative work has been featured in TriQuarterly, River Teeth, Split Lip Magazine, Bending Genres, and other publications. I earned a BA from UCLA and an MFA from Miami University, where I was editor-in-chief of Oxford Magazine. My work has been nominated for awards including the Pushcart Prize, Fictions of the Midwest, Best of the Net, and has been supported by an Excellence in Teaching Fellowship at the Madeline Island School of the Arts and the Jordan Goodman prize.
I've served as a panelist for numerous creative writing awards, including Sun Yat-sen University's essay contest and Idaho Commission on the Arts' Creative Writing fellowship.
Currently, I work as a senior editor at Russell Reynolds Associates, where I author research on topics like AI’s organizational impacts, leadership motivations, equitable representation at the C-level, and RRA’s bespoke culture imaging approach and provide strategic editorial input across the firm’s global insights catalog. I teach creative writing at The Loft Literary Center, and am on the fiction staff for Split Lip Magazine.
I'm seeking representation for my novel about a woman and her long-estranged stepmother who set out on a roadtrip across a climate-devastated America to save her father from his fire threatened home. I'd love to share it with you.