Gerri Leen

Gerri Leen (she/her) is an award-nominated poet from Northern Virginia who’s into horse racing, tea, and collecting encaustic art and raku pottery. She has poetry published by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Dark Matter, The HWA Poetry Showcase, Dreams & Nightmares and others, and in 2024 published her first poetry collection Unwilling: Poems of Horror and Darkness. Visit gerrileen.com to see what she’s been up to.

Read Leen’s short poetry selection Luminous Darkness: Escape and Transgression in Horrific Scribes.

Description: Dark verse exploring escape from transgression and transgressive escapes. The conversation between light and darkness and how to bridge the two, refusing to pick the lesser of two evils, looking for a sordid truth in its prismatic eyes. Finding freedom in movement, vengeance in stillness, and hope both stolen and bestowed.