Leigh Sugar is a Michigan-born writer, teacher, and dancer, who has facilitated creative writing workshops through the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) at Cooper Street Correctional Facility in Jackson, MI, and co-edited PCAP’s annual Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing (Vol. 4–6). She has taught writing at the Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, Poetry Foundation, Justice Arts Coalition, and beyond.

Leigh holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University. Her writing appears in Poetry magazine, Split This Rock, jubilat, Honey Literary, and elsewhere. She most recently edited That’s a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and Poetry by Artists Teaching in Carceral Institutions (New Village Press, 2023).

As a disabled and chronically ill person, Leigh is committed to learning from Disability Justice leaders and working towards greater justice for all.

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