T.S. Leonard is a poet and author of works published in Foglifter, Post Road, and Poetry. Leonard’s work explores queerness, loss, and community at the intersection of disco music and time travel. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.
Leonard’s debut poetry collection, Another Anthem of Fabulous Survival, was selected by Meg Day for the 2024-2025 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, and will be published in Fall 2026 by Fordham University Press.
Emergency Meditations provides a space for reflection and generative inspiration, connecting our urgent moment to the lineage of artists and activists who have come before and dreamed different possibilities.