Yvonne Higgins Leach is a native of Washington state. She received her Bachelor of Arts in English from Washington State University in 1983 and a Master of Fine Arts from Eastern Washington University in 1986. She has spent decades balancing a career in communications and public relations, raising a family, and pursuing her love of writing poetry. Her work has appeared in South Dakota Review, South Carolina Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Poem, Hiram Review, Phantasmagoria, West Wind Review, Willow Review, Arnazella, Owen Wister Review, Phoebe, Evansville Review, Griffin, Soundings East, Quercus Review, Westview, Distillery, Eureka.Literary Magazine, Arnazella, and Pearl, among others. She splits her time living between Snohomish and Spokane, WA.

Books by Yvonne Higgins Leach:

Other poems on the web by Yvonne Higgins Leach:
Two poems
Four poems
"Pelicans Appear"
Five poems

Yvonne Higgins Leach's Website.

Yvonne Higgins Leach on Twitter.

About Another Autumn:

"Another Autumn is everything its title suggests: at once full of brilliant color and crisp detail while it gathers things past, things loved, things lost. The poems in the fine collection are about seasons and, more specifically, seasons passing. Seasons of childhood, parenthood, friendship andlove. Each poem charts the weather of each head on, unflinchingly, yet with great heart."
—Peter Serchuk

"How lucky we are to have a generous selection of Yvonne Higgins Leach’s very fine poems in one volume. ‘The more darkness covers moon / the more we reveal,’ as she observes. ‘Soon we know names, jobs, children’s ages.’ So, too, with Higgins Leach, who bravely opens her heart in intimate poems about family, love, loss, community, work, separation, and connection, and by doing so, invites us to consider our own lives more thoughtfully. This book is a gem."
—Bill Hayes

"Another Autumn is full of surprises. I have tremendous respect for these poems that Yvonne Higgins Leach has put together from the last twenty some years. She works the language with a careful patience. Even the explosive silences ask that they be re-read aloud, so that we can hear with our ear as well. This is good stuff."
—Alex Kuo