k. e. leger

After a tour of duty in the Army (stationed in Germany), k. e. leger attended Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, La. and joined the Louisiana National Guard (where she completed eleven years of service). At NSU, she studied creative writing under novelist Albert Belisle Davis and earned a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Mass Communications. She worked many jobs to support her writing including Newsletter Editor for Oceaneering International, Feature Writer for the Daily Review (Morgan City), and High School English Teacher. Her journalism and photography work have appeared in numerous regional publications. She's won the South Regional Award and the Bonnie Toups Wells Award for feature writing, The National Library of Poetry's Editor's Choice Award, Creative Arts & Science Enterprises' Accomplishment of Merit for Outstanding Literary Achievement Award in poetry, and Iliad Press' Honorable Mention in Poetry. Her poetry has appeared in nine anthologies in the United States and in the United Kingdom. Born and raised in South Louisiana, she currently lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.