Jeannie Leighton

Jeannie has a Bachelor’s degree in English from Rutgers University and wrote a weekly sports column for the Courier News and the Trenton Times newspapers from 1986 through 1994. Some of her poetry has been published in obscure and long disappeared literary magazines. Since moving from New Jersey to the Prescott area in 1999, her writer’s voice reawakened. While a writing student at Yavapai College under Laraine Herring, Jeannie was the first (2009) winner of PWP’s $500 Agnes Franz Award for outstanding creative writing. She’s also studied with novelist and nonfiction author Mary Sojourner.

Jeannie is currently working on two novels, both set in the Southwest where an everyday life isn’t all it appears to be.