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Louise Wareham Leonard
Born1965 (age 58–59)
New Zealand
CitizenshipAmerican
Education
Website
www.louisewarehamleonard.com

Louise Wareham Leonard (born 1965) is an American writer born in New Zealand.[1][2]

Early life and education[edit]

Louise Wareham Leonard immigrated from New Zealand to New York City in 1977 with her family. Her older brother is singer-songwriter Dean Wareham, most known for his work with Galaxie 500 and Luna.

Career[edit]

Leonard was a cadet and then Junior Reporter aged seventeen and eighteen at the former Dominion Post in Wellington, New Zealand; she wrote news,reviews and several features. Age 20, when a college student at Columbia College, New York she was an intern reporter in Time's New York bureau. This was followed by working as a sub-editor and then a primarily travel writer [3] and book reviewer.[4][5] Leonard was assistant to Black liberation theology founder Rev. Prof. James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.[6] She later co-established a not-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia.[7]

Author[edit]

Her novels and novellas explore child sexual abuse, inequality and violence [8] and include Since You Ask, Miss Me A Lot Of, and 52 Men.[9]

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".[10] 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.[11]

Other publications by Leonard include the poetry collection, Blood Is Blood,[12] and the essay "The German Crowd" (2020).[13] Her work has been published in Poetry[14], Tin House,[15] TheRumpus.net,[16] Art Monthly Australia[17] and elsewhere.[18][19][20]

Works[edit]

  • Fiery World (Amazon Kindle, 2022)[21]
  • Blood is Blood (Amazon Kindle, 2022)[22]
  • Since You Ask (Akashic Books, New York, 2004)[23]
  • Miss Me A Lot Of (Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 2007)[24]
  • 52 Men (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2015) [25]
  • "The German Crowd" (Subnivean, 2020)[26]

Awards and honors[edit]

  • 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University Representative in the Mount Holyoke Poetry Prize, with judges Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky[27]
  • 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"[28]
  • 1999 James Jones First Novel Award for a novel in Progress[29]
  • 2006, 2008 Finalist for The New Zealand Prize in Modern Letters[30]
  • 2008 Creative New Zealand Grant[31]
  • 2016 Founding Member of the Academy of New Zealand Literature[32]

References[edit]

  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. ^ "Art Monthly Australasia - Issue 217". reader.exacteditions.com. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  4. ^ "Alice Tawhai". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  5. ^ "Bearing witness, again, Louise Wareham Leonard". New Zealand Review of Books Pukapuka Aotearoa. 2018-12-03. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  6. ^ Cone, James H (1999). Risks of Faith. Beacon Press.
  7. ^ "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on e. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 5 July 2017.
  8. ^ https://www.anzliterature.com/member/louise-wareham-leonard/
  9. ^ "52 Men". Kirkus Reviews. 83: 181. 2015-06-01. ISSN 1948-7428 – via EBSCO Host.
  10. ^ Amanda, Fortini (2016-04-29). "Why Can't You Be Sweet". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
  11. ^ "52 Men the Podcast". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  12. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood.
  13. ^ "LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  14. ^ "Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  15. ^ "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on E. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  16. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". TheRumpus.net. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  17. ^ "Art Monthly Australasia - Issue 217". reader.exacteditions.com. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  18. ^ "The Mail". The New Yorker. 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  19. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Fourteen Lines. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  20. ^ "Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
  21. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Fiery World – via Amazon.com.
  22. ^ Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood – via Amazon.com.
  23. ^ "Since You Ask". Akashic Books. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  24. ^ Miss me a lot of. worldcat.org. OCLC 166317790. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  25. ^ "52 Men". Red Hen Press. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  26. ^ "LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
  27. ^ List of Glascock Prize winners and participants
  28. ^ "Contributors". Poetry. 165 (5): 300–302. 1995. ISSN 0032-2032. JSTOR 20604325.
  29. ^ "2018 First Novel Fellowship awardees". The James Jones Society. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  30. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard Products - Victoria University Press". vup.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  31. ^ "Creative New Zealand Grants JULY – OCTOBER FUNDING ROUND 2007/2008" (PDF). Creative New Zealand. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-10.
  32. ^ "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2020-07-09.

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