Thanks for visiting my website. As a poet and writer and reader, I’ve built a life around words. My debut collection of poems—Gathering the Pieces of Days: A Year in Poetry—was published in April 2025 by Unsolicited Press. Gathering the Pieces of Days was selected as a 2026 Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Press Award. In August 2026,Tsunami will be published by Unsolicited Press. The book is a series of vignettes about my experience during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

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As an editor, I love punctuation, in particular, the semicolon. You can read all about my love of punctuation in my chapbook Punctuated  (Bottlecap Press, 2024), where each poem is shaped like the mark of punctuation. My poetry has appeared more than one hundred times in online and print journals, and you can read some of it by following the links on the Publications page. 

 

I write a Substack, LeeAnn Pickrell ~ Poetry & Prose. I’d love to have you as a subscriber and reader. Most Sundays you’ll receive a poem or short essay that you can enjoy along with your coffee. Speaking of which, coffee is one of my favorite things.

 

In my professional life, I’m a freelance editor and Managing Editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. And on a personal note, I was born in Texas, but I moved to California in 1991, where I currently live in East Richmond Heights with my partner, Josh, and my two fabulous cats, Pookie and Chompie. 

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