Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is a Canadian-American poet, writer, educator, and social activist. Their writing and performance art focuses on documenting the stories of queer and trans people of color, abuse survivors, mixed-race people and diasporic South Asians and Sri Lankans. A central concern of their work is the interconnection of systems of colonialism, abuse and violence.
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- Born in
- Worcester
- Educated at
- The New SchoolEugene Lang College of Liberal Arts
- Awards
- 🏆 Lambda Literary Award
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1975
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