Steven Leyva

Steven Leyva is a poet born in New Orleans and raised in Houston. He holds an MFA from the University of Baltimore, where he teaches as an assistant professor. He is a Cave Canem fellow and the editor of Little Patuxent Review. His poems have appeared in journals including Prairie Schooner, jubilat, and Nashville Review, and in Best American Poetry 2020. His collection The Understudy's Handbook won the Jean Feldman Poetry Prize from Washington Writers Publishing House. He also published the chapbook Low Parish.