Louise Wareham Leonard

Louise Wareham Leonard
Born	New Zealand
Citizenship	American
Education	Columbia College, Columbia University (BA) International Institute of Modern Letters (MA)

Louise Wareham Leonard is an American writer born in New Zealand. ^{[1] [2]} She has three brothers, one of whom is Dean Wareham of Galaxie 500 and Luna.

Early life

Leonard was an intern at TIME Magazine age 20, while a student at Columbia College, New York, then a magazine writer, mostly in travel. ^[3] She was also a part-time assistant to Black liberation theology founder Rev. Prof. James H. Cone at the Union Theological Seminary. ^[4]

In 2011, she co-established a not-for-profit aboriginal-owned art center in the outback town of Mt Magnet in Western Australia. ^[5]

Author

Her novels and novellas explore "the search for sanity" (according to Dame Fiona Kidman) in a world of "priapic narcissism" (according to John Newton ^[6] ).

Since You Ask is an "intense and insightful work about a childhood sexual abuse survivor that portrays a complicated character and her multifaceted mind with deep empathy." ^[7] It won the 1999 James Jones Literary Society First Novel Award. ^[3]

52 Men centers on Elise McKnight and fifty-two vignettes of her interactions with various men. The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote "Although in style and tone[,] 52 Men differs from either Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights or Renata Adler’s Speedboat, it is, like both of these books, a novel of impressions unified by the author’s sensibility". ^[8]

Other publications by Leonard include Blood Is Blood ^[9] and the essay "The German Crowd" (2020). ^[10] Her work has been published in Poetry, ^[11] Tin House, ^[12] TheRumpus.net, ^[13] Art Monthly Australia ^[14] and elsewhere. ^{[15] [16] [11]}

Podcast

Leonard also founded, produced and hosted 52 Men, the Podcast: Women Telling Stories about Men, a 25 episode series featuring one writer per episode. Authors include Lynne Tillman, Mia Funk, Jane Alison, Caroline Leavitt, Emily Holleman, Eliza Factor, and Julia Slavin. ^[17]

Works

• Fiery World (Amazon Kindle, 2022) ^[18]
• Blood is Blood (Amazon Kindle, 2022) ^[19]
• Since You Ask (Akashic Books, New York, 2004) ^[20]
• Miss Me A Lot Of (Victoria University Press, New Zealand, 2007) ^[21]
• 52 Men (Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2015) ^[22]
• "The German Crowd" (Subnivean, 2020) ^[23]

Awards and honors

• 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University Representative in the Mount Holyoke Poetry Prize, with judges Seamus Heaney and Joseph Brodsky ^[24]
• 1986 Columbia College, Columbia University, Andrew D. Fried Memorial Prize "given to a senior in Columbia College judged by the Columbia College English Department to have excelled in both critical and creative writing" ^[2]
• 1999 James Jones First Novel Award for a novel in Progress ^[25]
• 2006, 2008 Finalist for The New Zealand Prize in Modern Letters ^[26]
• 2008 Creative New Zealand Grant ^[27]
• 2016 Founding Member of the Academy of New Zealand Literature ^[28]

References

1. "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
2. "Contributors". Poetry. 165 (5): 300–302. 1995. ISSN   0032-2032. JSTOR   20604325.
3. "The James Jones Literary Society Newsletter, Vol. 9 No. 2" (PDF). p. 8. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
4. Cone, James H (1999). Risks of Faith. Beacon Press.
5. "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on e. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 5 July 2017.
6. "Louise Wareham Leonard".
7. "Since You Ask by Louise Wareham, PopMatters". 21 September 2004.
8. Amanda, Fortini (2016-04-29). "Why Can't You Be Sweet". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-07-30.
9. Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood.
10. "Louise Wareham Leonard". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
11. "Poetry Magazine". Poetry Foundation. 2022-08-25. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
12. "Lost & Found: Louise Wareham Leonard on E. L. Grant Watson". Tin House. 2017-07-05. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
13. "Louise Wareham Leonard". TheRumpus.net. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
14. "Art Monthly Australasia - Issue 217". reader.exacteditions.com. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
15. "The Mail". The New Yorker. 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
16. "Louise Wareham Leonard". Fourteen Lines. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 2022-08-26.
17. "Launch of 52 Men, the Podcast - Red Hen Press". Red Hen Press. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
18. Leonard, Louise Wareham. Fiery World – via Amazon.com.
19. Leonard, Louise Wareham. Blood Is Blood – via Amazon.com.
20. "Since You Ask". Akashic Books. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
21. Miss me a lot of. worldcat.org. OCLC   166317790.
22. "52 Men". Red Hen Press. 15 February 2020. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
23. "LOUISE WAREHAM LEONARD". Subnivean. Retrieved 2022-08-25.
24. List of Glascock Prize winners and participants
25. "2018 First Novel Fellowship awardees". The James Jones Society. 2018-09-13. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
26. "Louise Wareham Leonard Products - Victoria University Press". vup.victoria.ac.nz. Retrieved 2020-07-09.
27. "Creative New Zealand Grants JULY – OCTOBER FUNDING ROUND 2007/2008" (PDF). Creative New Zealand. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-10.
28. "Louise Wareham Leonard". Academy of New Zealand Literature. Retrieved 2020-07-09.

External links

• New Zealand Academy of Literature

• https://www.louisesays.com/