Leanna Petronella

Leanna Petronella’s debut poetry collection, The Imaginary Age, won the 2018 Pleiades Press Editors Prize. Her poetry appears widely in publications such as Beloit Poetry Journal, Third Coast, Birmingham Poetry Review, CutBank, and Quarterly West. Her nonfiction appears in Brevity, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fugue, and other publications.

She holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri and an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. She lives in Austin, Texas.