Louise Wareham Leonard is an American writer born in New Zealand.

Early life and education

Leonard immigrated to

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in 1977 with her family. She graduated with a BA from

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in 1987. She has an MA from the Institute of Modern Letters in

Wellington, New Zealand Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metr ...

Career

At age 15, Leonard began writing as a reporter; at 20, she was an intern reporter in TIME's New York Bureau. She then worked as a magazine writer and book reviewer. Her novels include ''Since You Ask'', ''Miss Me A Lot Of'', and ''52 Men.'' ''52 Men'' centers on Elise McKnight and fifty-two vignettes of her interactions with various men. It was the basis of the 2016 Podcast "52 Men the Podcast: Women Telling Stories about Men" with 25 episodes featuring Lynne Tillman, Jane Alison, Caroline Leavitt, Emily Holleman, Mia Funk, Eliza Factor, Julia Slavin and many more. Leonard also wrote the poetry collection, ''Blood Is Blood'', the 2020 essay "The German Crowd" and works published in ''Poetry', Tin House'', The Rumpus.net, The Creative Process'', Art Monthly Australia'' and many others. She was Assistant to Black Liberation Founder Reverend Professor James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary in New York. and later co-established a non-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet In Western Australia.

Works

* Fiery World (Amazon Kindle, 2022) * ''Blood is Blood (Amazon Kindle, 2022)'' * ''Since You Ask'' (Akashic Books, New York, 2004) * ''Miss Me A Lot Of'' (Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 2007) * ''52 Men'' (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2015) * "The German Crowd" (''Subnivean'', 2020)

Awards and honors

*1986 Columbia College, Columbia University Representative in the Mount Holyoke Poetry Prize, with judges Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky *1986 Columbia College, Columbia University, Andrew D. Fried Memorial Prize "given to a senior in Columbia College judged by the Columbia College English Department to have excelled in both critical and creative writing" *1999

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for a novel in Progress *2006, 2008 Finalist for The New Zealand Prize in Modern Letters *2008

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Grant *2016 Founding Member of the Academy of New Zealand Literature

References

External links

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New Zealand Academy of Literature
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