Louise Wareham Leonard

Louise Wareham Leonard is an American writer born in New Zealand. Her most recent work is the essay The German Crowd

Her work concerns violence and spirituality, with beginnings in childhood abuse and patriarchal family dynamics. She addresses "the search for sanity" (Dame Fiona Kidman) in a world of "priapic narcissism." (Stout Scholar John Newton.)

Leonard immigrated to New York City in 1977 with her family and was graduated with a BA from Columbia College, Columbia University in 1987. She has an MA from the Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand.

Leonard is the subject of a 2016 essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books by Amanda Fortini: "Why Can't You Be Sweet".[1] Also: Daniel Handler.[2]

Career

Age 15, Leonard began writing as a reporter at "Our Town" in New York City and "The Dominion Post" in Wellington,New Zealand. At age 18 as a student at Columbia College, Columbia University New York, NY, she began working forTIME Magazine; at 20 she was an intern reporter in TIMES's New York Bureau. She then worked as a freelance writer, reviewer and editor.

Leonard is the author of a book of poetry Blood Is Blood, and three short novels: Since You Ask (Akashic Books, New York, 2004), Miss Me A Lot Of''(Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 2007 and 52 Men (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2015).

She has also been published in Poetry, Tin House, The Rumpus.net, Best New Zealand Fiction 1, Art Monthly Australia and many others.

In 2016, she founded "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.[3]

Awards and honors
  • 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University Representative in the Mount Holyoke Poetry Prize, with judges Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky[4]
  • 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University, Andrew D Fried Memorial Prize "given to a senior in Columbia College judged by the English Department to have excelled in both critical and creative writing"
  • 1999 James Jones First Novel Award for a novel in Progress;[5]
  • 2006, 2008 Finalist for The New Zealand Prize in Modern Letters;[6]
  • 2008 Creative New Zealand Grant [7]
  • 2016 Founding Member of the Academy of New Zealand Literature[8]

Work with African American and Aboriginal Australians

Leonard was a 25-year friend of artist Charles McGill (1964–2017) and wrote the introduction to his essay on the Wizard of Oz.[9]

She was Assistant to Black Liberation Founder Reverend Professor James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.[10]

In the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia, she co-established a non-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center Wirnda Barna.[11]

References
  1. Amanda Fortini (29 April 2016). "Why Can't You Be Sweet?". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  2. @DanielHandler (5 February 2016). "I salute thee, Louise Wareham Leonard @louisewareham (52 Men, @RedHenPress) #FridayReads" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  3. "52 Men the Podcast". SoundCloud. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  4. List of Glascock Prize winners and participants
  5. jjlsociety (2018-09-13). "2018 First Novel Fellowship awardees". THE JAMES JONES. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  6. "Louise Wareham Leonard Products - Victoria University Press". vup.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  7. Creative New Zealand http://www.creativenz.govt.nz/assets/ckeditor/attachments/104/07-08-01-funding.pdf
  8. "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
  9. "Storm cellar". 6 March 2004.
  10. Cone, James H (1999). Risks of Faith. Beacon Press.
  11. "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on e. L. Grant Watson". 5 July 2017.
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