Leona Sevick

Leona Sevick, the child of a Korean immigrant, earned a doctorate in English Language and

Literature from the University of Maryland in 2002. She won the Press 53 Award for Poetry for

her first full-length book of poems, Lion Brothers, and her work appears in Orion, Birmingham

Poetry Review, Blackbird, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and The Sun, among other

journals. She was a 2018 Tennessee Williams Scholar and a 2019 Walter E. Dakin Fellow for the

Sewanee Writers’ Conference and serves as advisory board member of the Furious Flower Black Poetry Center. She is provost and professor of English at Bridgewater College in Virginia, where

she teaches Asian American literature. The Bamboo Wife is her second book of poems.