Dr. Anna Leahy - Associate Professor of English
Department of English - Chapman University
2008 - present
Wilkinson Hall, 225, Chapman University, 1 University Dr., Orange, CA 92866
leahy@chapman.edu
(714) 628-7389
B.A. Knox College; M.A. Iowa State University; M.F.A.,
University of Maryland; Ph.D., Ohio University
Anna Leahy’s poetry collection Constituents of Matter won the Wick Poetry Prize and was published by Kent State University Press in 2007. Her chapbook Turns about a Point is available from Finishing Line Press. Her poetry also appears in literary journals such as Crab Orchard Review, Cream City Review, The Journal, Nimrod, and other literary journals and anthologies. She served as the Guest Poetry Editor for the second issue of Fifth Wednesday.
Leahy directs Tabula Poetica: Poetry at Chapman University, which hosts an annual Poetry Reading Series and other events and projects. With Chapman University librarian Douglas Dechow, she writes Lofty Ambitions Blog, which focuses on aviation, science, and collaboration.
Leahy publishes widely in the area of creative writing pedagogy and is currently researching how different fields define creativity. Her edited collection, Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom, launched the New Writing Viewpoints series from Multilingual Matters in 2005. Articles or chapters about teaching appear in Does the Writing Workshop Still Work? (2010), Stories of Mentoring (2008), Can It Really Be Taught? (2007), The Handbook of Creative Writing (2007), New Writing, Inside High Ed, American Book Review, and others. Leahy has collaborated with art historian Debora Rindge and with Douglas Dechow on scholarly articles.
Leahy earned her Ph.D. from Ohio University, her M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and her M.A. from Iowa State University. She teaches creative writing courses.
Dr. Leahy's Selected Publications
Constituents of Matter (full-length poetry collection), Kent State University Press, 2007
Turns about a Point (poetry chapbook), Finishing Line Press, 2006
Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project (edited collection), Multilingual Matters, 2005
Haigoscope (poetry chapbook), The Sow's Ear Press, 2000
"On Sketching Pippa Passes the Loose Women (1855)" (poem), A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Prose Poetry, eds. S.S. Brown and O. de la Paz, forthcoming.
"The Stars Don't Dance," "War Bird," and "A History of Air Travel" (poems), Air & Space Magazine (online feature for National Poetry Month), April 2009
"Mountain (1)," "Mountain (2)," and "Mountain (3)" (poems), Laurel Review, Volume 43, Issue 2, 2009
"A History of Air Travel" (poem), On the Wing: American Poems of Air and Space, Univ. of Iowa Press, 2005
"Good Counsel: A Conversation about Poetry Writing, the Imagination, and Teaching" (essay with Larissa Szporluk), Mid-American Review, forthcoming 30th Anniversary Issue
"Undergraduate Creative Writing in the United States: Buying In Isn't Selling Out" (chapter), Teaching Creative Writing, edited by Heather Beck, Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming
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