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Eugenia Leigh
Poet at Four Way Books
Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two poetry collections published by Four Way Books:
Bianca (2023)
Leigh's gripping second collection introduces a woman managing marriage, motherhood, and mental illness as her childhood abuse resurfaces. The poems recover and reconsider Leigh's girlhood and young adulthood with the added context of PTSD and Bipolar Disorder, documenting her journey of breaking free from the cycle of abuse.2
Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (2014)
Eugenia Leigh's startling debut book is loosely focused on God, father and family. The poems engage in a constant conversation with God, with a narrator who is both a dutiful and guilty daughter.3
Eugenia Leigh received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and has served as a teaching artist with various organizations. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Poets & Writers Magazine, Kundiman, the Asian American Literary Review, and others.1
Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications including The Atlantic, The Nation, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, and the Best New Poets anthology.1 Poems from Bianca received Poetry magazine's 2021 Bess Hokin Prize and Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology.1
