Editorial Freelancers Association
Member Profile
Leah Myers
Leah Myers is a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of the Pacific Northwest. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Orleans, where she won the Samuel Mockbee Award for Nonfiction two years in a row. She has held multiple jobs as copy editor, copy writer, editor of content, and more. She has worked at a publishing press, and multiple universities and had multiple responsibilities including writing, editing, proofreading, and sensitivity reading. Her work has previously appeared in The Atlantic, Craft Literary Magazine, Fugue Journal, and elsewhere. Her debut memoir, THINNING BLOOD, is published by W.W. Norton and received a rave review in the New York Times.
Years in the field: 6
Years freelancing: 2
Leah Myers
Leah Myers is a member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe of the Pacific Northwest. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of New Orleans, where she won the Samuel Mockbee Award for Nonfiction two years in a row. She has held multiple jobs as copy editor, copy writer, editor of content, and more. She has worked at a publishing press, and multiple universities and had multiple responsibilities including writing, editing, proofreading, and sensitivity reading. Her work has previously appeared in The Atlantic, Craft Literary Magazine, Fugue Journal, and elsewhere. Her debut memoir, THINNING BLOOD, is published by W.W. Norton and received a rave review in the New York Times.
