Lobsters, American Short Fiction

Level Up, West Texas Literary Review

Late Bloom, Necessary Fiction

When Big Wally Lost Two Heads, NPR.org, Three-Minute Fiction Contest

Seven Eight Nine, Baltimore's Style magazine

High Noon, Loch Raven Review

Iniko, Redshift 5 anthology (theme: 2020)

The Green Cord, The Keepthings

What Would Make Future You Happy? Headspace

In the Bed, Post Road

The Dead Baby Files, Mid-Level Management Literary Magazine

Finding and Cultivating Your Ideas, WYPR/”Humanities Connection” segment

Collegiality, Johns Hopkins Magazine

Passport: A True Tale of Motherhood, Baltimore Fishbowl

I Tried It: Rehabilitating Roadkill, OZY,com

Now We Are in the Public Domain, Medium.com

An Open Letter to Charlotte A. Cavatica, Defenestration

Family Jeopardy, Funny Women #44, The Rumpus (also received honorable mention in the Mark Twain House and Museum's 2015 Royal Nonesuch Humor Writing Contest)

Appointment Television: A Bedtime Story, Baltimore Fishbowl

I Hate to Ask, honorable mention in Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry contest, 2012

GENIE WISHES, my illustrated middle-grade novel, was published by Abrams Books in 2013.

The book is no longer sold new in hardcover, but you can purchase the ebook from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and possibly other sources. You can also find copies at used bookstores and in libraries.

What’s the novel about? Here’s the book trailer.

And here’s what some readers and reviewers had to say:

"Compassionate, optimistic, and creative, Genie overcomes conflicts with bullies and gossipers with grace and learns that she can find happiness just by being herself. Anxious upper elementary school readers will relate to Genie’s social conflicts and comfort in the book’s uncomplicated, speedy resolutions." —Publishers Weekly

"Frank and honest insights into evolving relationships, changing bodies, and secrets." —School Library Journal

"Genie Wishes was a fantastic book full of humour and heart. I immediately felt an affinity for Genie, and laughed, cringed, and cheered for her and her classmates as they triumphantly conquer fifth grade." —Côte Saint-Luc Public Library

"GENIE WISHES feels spot-on, recounting the joys and pitfalls of fifth-grade in a realistic manner that manages to be both humorous and poignant." —Kidsreads

Interview with Leigh Newman, author of NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE, Baltimore Fishbowl

Interview with Leigh Newman, author of STILL POINTS NORTH, Baltimore Fishbowl

“Japan 2011” and “Apology,” Little Patuxent Review, winter 2013 (video of me readng the poems at the issue’s lauch party)