Leila Einhorn is a poet and prose writer whose work explores memory, recovery, and the quiet ruptures of ordinary life. Her work has appeared in Always Crashing, Apricity Press, 8 Poems, and elsewhere. She is a former editorial assistant for the Colorado Review, co-founder of the Philadelphia Free Poetry Workshop in West Philly, and member of the GuloGulo Poetry Collective. She lives and writes in Philadelphia.
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Honors & Awards
- New Writers Flash Fiction Competition – Shortlisted (2024)
- Oxford Flash Fiction Prize – Longlisted (2024)
- Tremblay Crow Writing Fellowship, Colorado State University (2018)
- Yong Woon Lee Scholarship, Colorado State University (2018)
- Andrew Grossbardt Memorial Poetry Prize, Brandeis University (2012)
- Undergraduate Poetry Prize, Literary Laundry (2011)
- New Jersey Governor’s School of the Arts Fellowship, State of New Jersey (2007)