Leila Chatti, Third Place winner in Narrative’s Thirteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is a Tunisian American poet and the author of the poetry collections Wildness Before Something Sublime (Copper Canyon Press, 2025) and Deluge, winner of the 2021 Levis Reading Prize. She earned an MFA in poetry from North Carolina State University, where she was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. She teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Pacific University and lives in Cincinnati.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Eastwood and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2021
- From Deluge, poetry, in Spring 2020
- The Doe, poetry, in Poems of the Week: 2018–2019
- Not All of Us Get to Be Ghosts, poetry, in Fall 2018
- Muslim Girlhood, poetry, in Fall 2016
- Hometown Nocturne and Other Poems, poetry, in Winter 2016