A recipient of support from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Leah Tieger (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the University of Southern California’s literature and creative writing program. While Tieger was a 2023 Wrigley Institute fellow, her ecopoetic practice led her to a qualitative study of communities surrounding the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. Related work by Tieger appears in Poetry Northwest, Waxwing, Blackbird, and Tupelo Quarterly.
Extinction
Summer 2024
Doomscrolling
My mother’s ceramic hands collected anything that breaks laced as a condor’s egg :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::In the article, barrels of DDT tumor the floor between my coast and Catalina ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: In the […]
Extinction
Summer 2024
Next Year’s Records Break Again
the line between given and self-inflicted. Bract-scales once more widen their mouths, letting their dry tongues unswallow too much of themselves. The memory of our shared days passed as seeds […]