The Binghamton Center for Writers of the Creative Writing Program of the Department of English, General Literature and Rhetoric is thrilled to welcome Eugenia Leigh, a critically acclaimed author, to Binghamton University for a reading and conversation! Leigh speaks to any reader interested in exploring gender, trauma, mental health, family life, and the human condition.

Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca, (Four Way Books, March 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), winner of the Late Night Library’s 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry, selected by Arisa White, as well as a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The Atlantic, The Nation, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, the Best New Poets anthology, and the Best of the Net anthology. Poems from Bianca were awarded Poetry magazine’s 2021 Bess Hokin Prize and received Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology.