Leah Umansky lives in New York City and is the author of Domestic Uncertainties (Blazevox, 2012) and two chapbooks, Straight Away the Emptied World (Kattywompus Press, 2016) and Don Dreams and I Dream (Kattywompus Press, 2014). She is a graduate of the MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.

Books by Leah Umansky:

Other poems on the web by Leah Umansky:
Four poems
"Edge of the Wild"
"I Want to Be Stark [Like]"
"Stranger Is"
Two poems
"A Scene From Proper Spite"
Four poems
"Lonely is a Hard Word to Use in a Poem"

Leah Umansky's Website.

Leah Umansky on Twitter.

Leah Umansky on Facebook.

About The Barbarous Century:

"The Barbarous Century is a wild, magnificent achievement."
—Kaveh Akbar

"In The Barbarous Century, Leah Umansky writes, 'I want to make and I want the making to do wondrous things.' And in this book, Umansky has made something wondrous indeed. In these poems, 'even the dark has its blossoms'; these are troubled times, as the words acknowledge, and yet we are forging ahead, 'taking the best parts of us into a future dawning with art and voice.'"
—Maggie Smith

"Leah Umansky's exploration of internal and external dystopias includes the lyric itself, which she meticulously constructs and deconstructs. A poet's poet, Umansky gives equal attention to traditional and contemporary poetic modes, possessing wit, insight, intellect and all manner of aural resources."
—Kathryn Maris