Leah Falk

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Biography

Leah Falk is the author of To Look After and Use (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and Other Customs and Practices (Glass Lyre Press, 2023). Her poems have appeared in journals including The Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, FIELD, EcoTheo, Blackbird, On the Seawall, and Four Way Review, and in Best New Poets, Verse Daily, and Poetry Daily. In 2012 she received the Beulah Rose Poetry Prize from Smartish Pace, and she has received support for her writing from Asylum Arts, the Yiddish Book Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Sundress Academy for the Arts.

Published Works

Other Customs and Practices (Glass Lyre Press, 2023)
To Look After and Use (Finishing Line Press, 2019)

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Links to Sample Works

• Blackbird, “The Machine’s Guide to Grief” 
• EcoTheo, “95. Is there a custom that when the child is born one should whisper the biblical verse Hear O Israel into his ear?” 
• Poetry Daily, “Satellites” 
• Grist, “The Hundredth Anniversary” 

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Education

Oberlin College, University of Michigan

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