T.S. Leonard is a poet, performer, and author of works published in Fourteen Poems, Foglifter, and Poetry Magazine. Leonard’s work explores queerness, loss, and community at the intersection of disco music and time travel. Leonard’s performance work includes the 2020 audio chapbook Even Still They Shook, contributions to Spectral Transmissions (Portland Art Museum), and shouting in the punk band Soft Butch. Leonard was a finalist for the 2024 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize and the 2023 Northwest Review Poetry Prize. Leonard holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, he lives and teaches in San Francisco.