Leigh N. Gallagher

Artist Statement

My fiction concerns itself with enduring quests for meaning, integrity, and connection amidst the atomization and destabilization of contemporary American life. Under the influence of affect theory, psychology, and poetics, I endeavor to write generous, multipronged narratives that use language, syntax, and character to reflect human experience at its most mystifying.

Novel cover image 2022

Bio

Leigh N. Gallagher is a fiction writer from California currently living in Philadelphia. Her first novel, Who You Might Be, was published by Henry Holt in 2022, and her short stories and nonfiction have appeared in many publications, including Lit Hub, American Short Fiction, the Reading Room anthology, and in nontraditional formats through collaborations with artists and musicians. She works as a community educator, freelance editor, and writer for a Los Angeles-based gallery.

www.leighngallagher.com