Amy Leach

Amy Leach’s work has been published in A Public Space, Tin House, Orion, the Los Angeles Review, and many others. She has been recognized with the Whiting Writers’ Award, Best American Essays selections, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She plays bluegrass, teaches English, and lives in Montana. Things That Are is her first book.

Listen to Leach’s bluegrass renditions of her essays “God” and “Memorandum to The Animals”—both of which appear in Things That Are—below.

BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR:

Things That Are

A first book of nonfiction by an award-winning author who combines science, nature, philosophy, and cosmology with an incredibly rare and wild imagination.
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PHOTOS AND VIDEOS:

Watch a book video for Amy Leach's first collection of essays, Things That Are, which features a bluegrass version of the essay "God" and illustrations by Nate Christopherson.