Leigh Sugar is a Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based disabled artist. She holds an MFA from NYU (where she served as a veteran writer fellow), and has taught at CUNY's Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, Poetry Foundation, Hugo House, Justice Arts Coalition, and various prisons in Michigan. Poems appear in POETRY, Split This Rock, jubilat, Tupelo Quarterly, and more. She created and edited the forthcoming anthology "That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral institutions" (New Village Press, 2023), and her poetry manuscript FREELAND was a 2021 Alice James Book Award Finalist. She is represented by Ayla Zuraw-Friedland at Frances Goldin Literary Agency. Learn more and say hi at leighksugar.com, and on social media @lekasugar (Instagram) and @LeighSugar3 (Twitter)