Leah De Forest was born in Geelong, Australia, and lives in Boston. Her debut novel, ANY KIND OF KNOWN TOMORROW, is forthcoming from Betty, an imprint of WTAW Press. Another novel manuscript was long-listed for the inaugural Richell prize for emerging writers, highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript and shortlisted for the Varuna Publisher Fellowship Program.
Her fiction, essays and criticism have appeared in Griffith Review, CRAFT Literary, Ohio University’s Quarter After Eight, Bodega Magazine, Fiction Writers Review, LEON Literary Review, Monash University’s Verge 2020, Kill Your Darlings, Eureka Street, Overland, and The Canberra Times. She serves as a senior editor at Bloom, a literary website featuring authors who debut at 40 or older.
Leah teaches writing at the Harvard Extension and Summer Schools (where she is also an academic advisor in the graduate writing program), was a contributor in fiction at the 2022 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and holds an MFA from the Program For Writers at Warren Wilson College. A former ward of the State, Leah has worked as a journalist, book reviewer, columnist, speech writer, and public servant.
