Read: "Here is a Sea We Cannot Call Sea" in Scalawag

Purchase: The Understudy's Handbook (WWPH, 2020).

Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in Smartish Pace, Scalawag, Nashville Review, jubilat, The Hopkins Review, Prairie Schooner, and Best American Poetry 2020. He is a Cave Canem fellow and author of the chapbook Low Parish and author of The Understudy’s Handbook which won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. Steven holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he is an associate professor in the Klein Family School of Communications Design.

Further Reading:

Lucille Clifton's Collected Poems

Taylor Byas, "THE POETICS OF PERFORMANCE IN STEVEN LEYVA’S THE UNDERSTUDY’S HANDBOOK"
The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry (Blair)