“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.” ~W.H. Auden

Courtney LeBlanc is author of the full length collections Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat, 2025), Her Whole Bright Life, winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize (Write Bloody, 2023),  Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, 2021), and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press, 2020). She is the Arlington Poet Laureate Emeritus (2023-2025), a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow (2022), and the  founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press and Poetry Coven, a monthly generative poetry workshop. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning.

She can be contacted here.