Stephen McLeod

Stephen McLeod is a poet and a essayist and blogger living in New York City. As of this writing, he is also an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York. He is the author of The Borgo of the Holy Ghost, a book of poems published in 2001, and again in 2014, and is currently at work on a book.

He was educated at the Walden School and Southern Methodist University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1979, from Columbia University, where, in 1981, he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, Poetry. Since 1987, Mr. McLeod has lived in New York. From 1989-1993, Mr. McLeod was a candidate and student for the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New York. He studied Philosophy, matriculating at St. John's University, New York, and Theology at St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie.

Author: Stephen McLeod's poems have appeared in literary journals, including Barrow Street, The Paris Review, Shenandoah, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Southwest Review, among many others. In 2001, his book of poems, The Borgo of the Holy Ghost (2001, Utah State University Press) was awarded the May Swenson Prize in poetry. In 2014, Legal Studies Forum devoted an issue to reprinting a revised and updated text of that book.

Mr. McLeod lives with his longtime companion, Jose Joaquin Zuleta in New York City.