Louise Wareham Leonard is an American writer born in New Zealand.[1][2] She has three brothers, one of whom is singer/songwriter Dean Wareham.

Early life

Leonard was an intern at TIME Magazine age 20, while a student at Columbia College, New York, then a magazine writer, mostly in travel.[3] She was also a part-time assistant to Black liberation theology founder Rev. Prof. James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary.[4]

In 2011, she co-established a not-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia.[5]

Author

Her novels and novellas explore "the search for sanity" (according to Dame Fiona Kidman) in a world of "priapic narcissism" (according to John Newton[6]).

Since You Ask is an "intense and insightful work about a childhood sexual abuse survivor that portrays a complicated character and her multifaceted mind with deep empathy."[7] It won the 1999 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award.[3]

52 Men centers on Elise McKnight and fifty-two vignettes of her interactions with various men. The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote "Although in style and tone[,] 52 Men differs from either Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights or Renata Adler’s Speedboat, it is, like both of these books, a novel of impressions unified by the author’s sensibility".[8]

Other publications by Leonard include Blood Is Blood[9] and the essay "The German Crowd" (2020).[10] Her work has been published in Poetry,[11] Tin House,[12] TheRumpus.net,[13] Art Monthly Australia[14] and elsewhere.[15][16][17]

Podcast

Leonard also hosted 52 Men, the Podcast: Women Telling Stories about Men, a 25 episode series featuring one writer per episode. Authors include Lynne Tillman, Mia Funk, Jane Alison, Caroline Leavitt, Emily Holleman, Eliza Factor, and Julia Slavin.[18]

Works

  • Fiery World (Amazon Kindle, 2022)[19]
  • Blood is Blood (Amazon Kindle, 2022)[20]
  • Since You Ask (Akashic Books, New York, 2004)[21]
  • Miss Me A Lot Of (Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 2007)[22]
  • 52 Men (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2015)[23]
  • "The German Crowd" (Subnivean, 2020)[24]

Awards and honors

  • 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University Representative in the Mount Holyoke Poetry Prize, with judges Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky[25]
  • 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"[26]
  • 1999 James Jones First Novel Award for a novel in Progress[27]
  • 2006, 2008 Finalist for The New Zealand Prize in Modern Letters[28]
  • 2008 Creative New Zealand Grant[29]
  • 2016 Founding Member of the Academy of New Zealand Literature[30]

References

  1. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  2. ^ "Contributors". Poetry. 165 (5): 300–302. 1995. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20604325.
  3. ^ a b "The James Jones Literary Society Newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 2" (PDF). p. 8. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  4. ^ Cone, James H (1999). Risks of Faith. Beacon Press.
  5. ^ "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on e. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 5 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard".
  7. ^ "Since You Ask by Louise Wareham, PopMatters". 21 September 2004.
  8. ^ Amanda, Fortini (2016-04-29). "Why Can't You Be Sweet". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  9. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood.
  10. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  11. ^ "Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  12. ^ "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on E. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  13. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". TheRumpus.net. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  14. ^ "Art Monthly Australasia - Issue 217". reader.exacteditions.com. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  15. ^ "The Mail". The New Yorker. 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  16. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Fourteen Lines. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  17. ^ "Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  18. ^ "Launch of 52 Men, the Podcast - Red Hen Press". Red Hen Press. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
  19. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Fiery World – via Amazon.com.
  20. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood – via Amazon.com.
  21. ^ "Since You Ask". Akashic Books. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  22. ^ Miss me a lot of. worldcat.org. OCLC 166317790. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  23. ^ "52 Men". Red Hen Press. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  24. ^ "LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  25. ^ List of Glascock Prize winners and participants
  26. ^ "Contributors". Poetry. 165 (5): 300–302. 1995. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20604325.
  27. ^ "2018 First Novel Fellowship awardees". The James Jones Society. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  28. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard Products - Victoria University Press". vup.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  29. ^ "Creative New Zealand Grants JULY – OCTOBER FUNDING ROUND 2007/2008" (PDF). Creative New Zealand. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-10.
  30. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2020-07-09.

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