Her Whole Bright Life by Courtney LeBlanc

Her Whole Bright Life captures a body that feels like both a home and a battleground.

Moving through grief, disordered eating, the loss of a father, and the loneliness of the pandemic, Courtney Leblanc's distinctive feminist voice grapples with finding her place in a chaotic world. Love and hunger intertwine, elegy becomes inseparable with anthem. 

This collection raises a fiery fist — so raise yours too.

She’s pissed. Hair-pulling, spit-flying,
curse-screaming pissed. She looks
down on her creation and wonders
where she went wrong. 

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Courtney LeBlanc is author of the full length collections Her Dark Everything (Riot in Your Throat, 2025), Her Whole Bright Life, Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, 2021), and Beautiful & Full of Monsters (VA Press, 2020). She is the Arlington Poet Laureate Emeritus (2023-2025), a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow (2022), and the  founder and editor-in-chief of Riot in Your Throat.