fellowships: Vermont Studio Center, Yaddo (twice), Hedgebrook (twice)

grants: Houston Endowment, Brown Foundation, Houston Arts Alliance (and others)

essays: Salon, Longreads, Dame, Creative Nonfiction, HuffPost, etc. (and others)

fiction: Moment Magazine, Tallgrass, Esoterica

memoir: Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and FInally Came Home (list of awards and accolades. Excerpt read on NPR, etc.)

librettos: The Refuge (Houston Grand Opera). Overboard (Houston Grand Opera). In Concert Against Hate (Houston Symphony), Uncovered (based on my memoir) for composer Laurie Laitman, Mass In Exile, (Houston Chamber Choir).

narrative nonfiction: memoir - Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and Finally Came Home (She Write Press, 2015), Not From Here: Song of America (Pegasus/international, 2023).

Website: www.leahlaxauthor.com

Twitter Username: @leahlax

Publications

• Not From Here: the Song of America (narrative nonfiction) , Pegasus (November 2023)
• (memoir) Uncovered: How I Left Hasidic Life and FInally Came Home , She Writes Press (August 2015)
• librettist - Uncovered, the opera, by composer Lori Laitman , NY City Lyric Opera (November 2022)

Employment

• librettist--freelance at Houston Grand Opera--2007 and 2017

Degrees

• Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Houston (May 2003)

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting, Poetry