Jessie Leitzel

Jessie Leitzel was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania and raised in Charleston, SC. They are a YoungArts award winner with distinction, a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and a gold medalist of the Scholastic Writing Awards. Leitzel’s work has been featured in Rattle, The Interlochen Review and Poetry, among others. Poems and essays from their debut collection The Small Hours (2024) have been commended by YoungArts and the National Endowment for the Arts. A student of the literature department and a member of the Radcliffe varsity rowing team, Leitzel studies at Harvard College.