Anna Leigh Knowles is the author of the poetry collections In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds (Idaho Poetry Prize, 2023) and Conditions of The Wounded (Wisconsin Poetry Series, 2021). Her work appears in Blackbird, Memorious, The Missouri Review Online, storySouth, and Tin House Online. A recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Agency Award, she has also received scholarships from the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop, the San Miguel de Allende Writers’ Conference and a Female Leadership Residency at Omega Institution. She holds an MFA from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and a BA from University of Colorado-Denver. She currently teaches in Denver.
