Leah Mensch is an Iraqi-American writer, archivist, and teacher based in Tucson. Originally from Pittsburgh, they hold an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of Arizona, where they’re working on a book length archival project about the late poet Kate Braverman, landscapes, radical ancestries, and non-western measures of record keeping. You can find their essays and poems published or forthcoming in the Kenyon Review, Adroit, Guernica, The North American Review, and Ninth Letter, where they were the winner of the 2025 Nonfiction Prize.