Newman, Leigh

Leigh Newman’s debut short story collection Nobody Gets Out Alive was published by Scribner in April 2022 and longlisted for the National Book Award. Her stories have appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, One Story, Tin House, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Her memoir about growing up in Alaska, Still Points North (Dial, 2013), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. In 2020 she was awarded a Pushcart fiction prize and an American Society of Magazine Editors’ fiction prize, as well as The Paris Review’s Terry Southern Prize for “humor, wit, and sprezzatura.” When not writing, she takes care of her two kids, two dogs, two chickens, and beloved, disgruntled cat.