She wrote for herself and for other queer survivors of partner abuse. She searched for support literature in the queer community for survivors of abuse and came up empty-handed. For years, Leah feared talking about the abuse in the face of callous rebukes (“it’s not like she hit you”) and an internal voice that worried about what the admittance of abuse in a queer relationship would do to the reputation of the community.
This violent relationship bred trauma, shame, and more abusive partners. Leah Horlick was 19 years old when her girlfriend first sexually assaulted her. She lives on Treaty Seven Territory & Region 3 of the Métis Nation in Calgary.Leah Horlick, 96 pgs, Caitlin Press,, $18 Her next collection of poems, "Moldovan Hotel," is forthcoming from Brick Books in spring 2021. In 2018, her piece "You Are My Hiding Place" was named Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year. In 2016, Leah was awarded the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBT Emerging Writers. She lived on Unceded Coast Salish Territories in Vancouver for nearly ten years, during which time she and her dear friend Estlin McPhee ran REVERB, a queer and anti-oppressive reading series. She is also the author of wreckoning, a chapbook produced with Alison Roth Cooley and JackPine Press. Her second collection, For Your Own Good (Caitlin Press, 2015), was named a 2016 Stonewall Honour Book by the American Library Association. Her first collection of poetry, Riot Lung (Thistledown Press, 2012), was shortlisted for a 2013 ReLit Award and a Saskatchewan Book Award. In 2016, Leah was awarded the Leah Horlick is a writer and poet who grew up as a settler on Treaty Six Cree Territory & the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
Leah Horlick is a writer and poet who grew up as a settler on Treaty Six Cree Territory & the homelands of the Métis in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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