Leah Hampton (September 21, 1973) is a writer. She writes primarily about
Appalachia, class, and
climate change.[1][2] Her debut collection, F*ckface, was named a Best Book of 2020 by Slate, Electric Literature, and PopMatters.[3] She is currently the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing Fellow in Residence at the University of Idaho’s Confluence Lab.[4]
She was awarded the Philip Roth Residency at the Stadler Center for Poetry in the spring of 2020[6]
She graduated with her MFA from the
Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, where she won the
Keene Prize for Literature.[7] She has also won regional prizes, including the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and the James Hurst Prize for Fiction which are both for writers who are living in or are from North Carolina.[8][9]
Selected works
Books
F*ckface and Other Stories, New York: Henry Holt, 2020
Short fiction
“Meemaw F**ks A Wolf,” McSweeney’s Quarterly, Issue 61, 2020
Leah Hampton (September 21, 1973) is a writer. She writes primarily about
Appalachia, class, and
climate change.[1][2] Her debut collection, F*ckface, was named a Best Book of 2020 by Slate, Electric Literature, and PopMatters.[3] She is currently the Environmental Humanities and Creative Writing Fellow in Residence at the University of Idaho’s Confluence Lab.[4]
She was awarded the Philip Roth Residency at the Stadler Center for Poetry in the spring of 2020[6]
She graduated with her MFA from the
Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas, where she won the
Keene Prize for Literature.[7] She has also won regional prizes, including the Doris Betts Fiction Prize and the James Hurst Prize for Fiction which are both for writers who are living in or are from North Carolina.[8][9]
Selected works
Books
F*ckface and Other Stories, New York: Henry Holt, 2020
Short fiction
“Meemaw F**ks A Wolf,” McSweeney’s Quarterly, Issue 61, 2020