
Janet Leahy’s poems appear in online and print journals including New Verse News, Midwest Prairie Review, The Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar, and elsewhere. She has two collections of poetry, The Storm: Poems of War, Iraq (2004), and Not My Mother’s Classroom (Poetry People Press, 2012). She regularly attends the Key West and Dodge Poetry Festivals, and loves the summer experience at American Players Theatre in Spring Green. Her poem "Nighthawks" won second place in the 2016 Wisconsin People & Ideas Poetry Contest.