Leigh Sugar is a Michigan-based artist. Poetry and other work appears in POETRY, Split This Rock, jubilat, and more. A disabled and chronically ill writer, Leigh holds an MFA in poetry from NYU and an MPA in Criminal Justice Policy from John Jay College, and has taught writing at CUNY's Institute for Justice and Opportunity, NYU, various prisons in Michigan, and other settings. Leigh edited the anthology That's a Pretty Thing to Call It: Prose and poetry by artists teaching in carceral institutions (New Village Press, 2023), and her debut poetry collection, FREELAND, is forthcoming (Alice James Books, 2025).