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Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full-length collections Her Dark Everything; Her Whole Bright Life (winner of the Jack McCarthy Book Prize); Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart; and Beautiful & Full of Monsters. She is the Arlington County Poet Laureate and the founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She’s also the founder of the Poetry Coven, a monthly generative workshop she runs out of her home. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Find her online at www.courtneyleblanc.com.

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Now that the news has officially been announced, I can tell you: my next collection of poetry, Her Dark Everything, will be published April 2025 with Riot in Your Throat. Her Dark Everything grapples with the loss of a friend to suicide and the continued survival of my best friend, despite her battles with major depression. It’s about hope and joy and sorrow and loss and survival. The Riot in Your

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	Beautiful & Full of Monsters 4.49 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Whole Bright Life 4.57 avg rating — 51 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart 4.71 avg rating — 38 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All in the Family 4.88 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Violence Within 4.92 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siamese Sisters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Her Dark Everything 4.55 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writers Resist: The Anthology 2018 by Kit-Bacon Gressitt (Editor), Sara Marchant (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Maia Antoinette (Contributor) 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost City Review, Volume III by Justin Karcher (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jeanette Godreau (Editor), Lizz Schumer (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hypertrophic Literary - Spring 2018 by Victoria Olt (Illustrator), Kathryn McMahon, Paul Schiernecker it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Other Side of Broken is a gorgeous meditation on the body, illness, marriage, addiction, divorce, nature, and learning how to heal after breaking. from Circuitous: "Age twenty-eight, I was learning to believe / not all loves leave in a casket. / The ...more
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Courtney LeBlanc and 1 other person liked Alicia Farmer's review of The Wedding People: "This isn't a book I would have picked up on my own. So I'm glad it was handed off to me. I enjoyed the week I spent with the wedding people and their wedding crasher, Phoebe. The dialogue really made this book. Whether it was the bride, Lila, explain" Read more of this review »
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