Sarah Leamy
Sarah (sleam) Leamy (born May, 1969 in Bromsgrove, England) is a British spoken word performer, writer, and editor. Leamy has won various awards and scholarships for their collections of short stories, novels, and artwork. They also visit conferences and festivals to tell stories and give writing workshops. Leamy is a researcher at the University of Birmingham, with a focus on Gender Ambiguity in Contemporary Fiction. Leamy identifies as androgynous, agender and non-binary and uses she pronouns. Many of Leamy's stories are about gender, identity, and belonging. Leamy currently resides in Madrid, NEw Mexico.
Career[edit][edit]
Leamy started performing spoken word in 1997, and her work deals with contemporary issues of family, gender, identity and the role of being an outsider. In the 1990's, Leamy moved to New Mexico and created the all-volunteer Clowning Around Project. In 2006, Leamy studied at the Clown Conservatory in San Francisco, CA. In 2010, SBG published her first novel, When No One's Looking which won the NM/AZ Best Gay Fiction Award. Leamy has since had numerous novels, art books and travel narratives published, with Van Life winning the Great Northwest Book Festival for Grand Prize & for Non-fiction (2017).
Currently, Leamy is a PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham, England. Her Masters thesis from the Vermont College of Fine Arts is published on Academia.edu and asks, Is there such a thing as genderless narrator? In 2019, she presented Ambiguity: Challenging Gender Stereotypes at the University of Arizona in their writing conference, writing workshops and presentations.
Writing[edit][edit]
Leamy has written novels, travelogues, and comic books. Common themes in her work involve identity, gender, community, and belonging.
Leamy's first book, When No One's Looking (Eloquent Books, 2010) won Best Gay Fiction in the NM/AZ Book Awards.
Lucky Shot: A Novel. (Strategic Book Publishing, 2012) Lucky takes photos throughout the chaos of avoiding his father’s death, and losing a girlfriend, by driving cross-country alone, yet returns openhanded if reluctantly to New Mexico.
Lucky Find. (SBG Books, 2014) Lucky unscrambles the past, one that challenges stereotypes of family, friendships, and gender, while laying a few good secrets to rest.
Van Life. (Self-published, 2016) won the Great Northwest Book Festival Award for Best Non-Fiction, 2017 and was a finalist in the NM/AZ Book Awards 2018.
Hidden is to be published by Finishing Line Press in March 2021.
Her short stories, poems and book reviews have been published in the Los Angeles Review Online, Passengers Journal, Hunger Mountain, and others.
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